I wouldn’t have said it was unfounded.
Only finished watching the coverage yesterday and was disappointed to see what looked strongly like a 10-12m gap not 20m from Helle for most of first half of bike behind Joyce.
The F1 track was more of it but may have had seperate rules approaching t2.
So I’d say it was classless yes, but on viewing the bike footage there seems ample backup and a fair point.
Don’t know the road marking distances so not an exact science.
May have been 20m and just looked a lot less but going on eye looks dubious at least.
It will happen at times but looked too frequent from the coverage.
Pics are misleading, but the video is a bit clearer.
Unknown being distance or measurement of road markings though.
Even Tim Don looked a bit close behind Frommhold for sections before spacing out.
Nature of triathlon at the mo not gonna catch every instance and some not intentional so hard call outside of at the time in the race.