Originally Posted by Flatballer

So you have to give up your lead no sooner than 15m before the lap and no later than 15m after the lap? And you have to be up track and out of the way of the other riders by 1m to be considered no longer leading.

At their speeds that's less than a 2 second window. And it's not marked on the track, so you just have to kind of know where it is. The 10m are marked on the floor, but good luck reading those at 40 mph.

Is there even a need for this rule at all? It seems like they'd change there anyway, even if they didn't have to. 3 riders, 3 laps, it just makes sense. Considering how often the best people in the world get DQ'd for this (worlds, Olympics, etc), it seems like maybe it's a little too hard to do. Maybe it should be 30m, or no rule at all?