What the new UCI bar height rule that affected Cancellara?

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Saw this in the Velonews report on the Tour de Suisse final TT. Anyone know the new rule? I’m curious.

“There was a new UCI rule introduced that limited the height of my time-trial bars, and we had to raise them just before I started,” explained Cancellara.

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Hmmm, me thinks UCI might be taking a stand against the Praying Landis position…

Before (Tour of Cali):
http://grahamwatson.com/gw/imagedocs.nsf/updateframesetcall?openform&07caliSt5

After (Suisse):
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/jun07/suisse07/index.php?id=/photos/2007/jun07/suisse07/suisse079/1b

Looks like the only difference is the height of the extensions…
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I recall that the height of the bars can not be above the seat.

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It says they had to raise them, not lower. Maybe it was a translation issue though; they are clearly lower.

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I saw that in the UCI rules link on the slowtwitch site, but Cancellara’s statement suggests that his bars were too low and he had to raise them. I was wondering if there was a new rule regulating the amount of drop from seat to bars.