Petr Polách writes:

The problem is that we flew 160 km and every place along the race
was quite safe and landable. What happened was completely avoidable by choosing
a different goal, but I think they pushed too much to end the task in Italy. The
last part of the valley in Austria was super landable and only few more minutes
to ride back to meet headquarters.

I wrote back to Petr:

If you can actually prove that, that is very damning and warrants swift and
strong action by the steward and the jury. A complaint needs to be lodged to
stop this kind of behavior, if this is the case.