Freire just chopped everyone in the sprint

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Freire just chopped everyone, by moving across the road. I reckon there will be some sprinters who are not too happy

Freire just chopped everyone, by moving across the road. I reckon there will be some sprinters who are not too happy

huh ? If you're a bike & half ahead of everyone else like Freire was you can do what you want ! No one was chopped.

huh ? If you're a bike & half ahead of everyone else like Freire was you can do what you want ! No one was chopped.
Freire changed his line in the last 200 metres.

Rules of sprinting say you can't change your line like that, but I guess since there wasn't a crash, and he was clearly the strongest in that sprint he got away with it.