following your reasoning check
http://www.uci.ch/...boutUCI/A12dis04.pdf page 15 of 34, Table 13.2, point 15.
Unintentional detour of a circuit constituting an advantage: rider eliminated.
You see my point? if you follow the rule exactly as stated, Lance Armstrong should have been eliminated from the Tour last year.
Now, you will argue (rightfully so) that "consituting an advantage" is subject to interpretation...Exactly as was the false start of Ian Thorpe (see one of the posts previously, forgot who wrote it, but it stated that the way the false start was handled was strange as the first who moved was NOT Thorpe and they should have been called off the blocks)...