So I will try to explain, if I am wrong, write it to my comments. So simply today’s finish and the final photofinish were so close and logically the comments immediately came with questions: Why does Ciccone look like he’s riding a children’s bike? Why does Remco’s bike look longer? Etc. I won’t hate anybody who asked those questions, because not everyone understands how it all works, so here I will try to explain. So here’s why: A cycling photofinish is not a normal photograph. It scans a single vertical plane, essentially the finish line, over time. The horizontal axis therefore represents time, not distance. That’s why bikes, wheels and riders can look completely distorted. The bottom of the wheel is moving very slowly relative to the road at the contact point, while the top is moving much faster, which can make the spokes and rim look dramatically curved. And there’s another detail many people don’t realize: the photofinish camera isn’t necessarily positioned directly on the black finish line. It is usually placed on the white area immediately before it, because trying to distinguish black tyres from a black finish line wouldn’t make much sense. So the image may look strange, but the leading edge of the front tyre (the point that determines the result) is recorded accurately. And at approximately 3,500 frames per second, the difference between Remco Evenepoel and Giulio Ciccone was then about just 0.00028 seconds. Insane…