The embarrassing thing is they obviously never thought what would do if this happened,
Surely in all the decades of individuals they must have thought what to do.
Feel for the track men, 4 meetings in 4 days would be bad enough but also a practise each day so equivalent of 8 meetings in 4 days, impossible to prepare decent track.
And if other rider had come off then he would have been excluded. So back to original question why does a rider have to come off, can be forced into fence and impeded and it’s ok.
Can see why Esbjerg didn’t want to host. Terrible crowd and was only about £13 admission for semi’s too.
Semi finals are poor especially when host not involved, thank god World Cup back next year hopefully with better format.
Don't see all the fuss, semi's will be crap, predicable top 3 and apart from handful decent matchups rest will be poor, who wants to see Poland v Finland, GB v Slovenia etc.
Final will be good
I think Poland, GB, Australia, Denmark, Sweden should be straight in final then have a race off meeting for the last 2 places.