Maugan, There is quite a bit of emotion involved here... and not a ton of logic.

I am quite sure that SI was written with the expectation that an RC would be taking wind readings (This was backed up by the Jury's findings). "As determined"? Who the heck would write that without the expectation that it would be a valid reading, not just a guess. Every RC has knot meters. Every major event I have been to recently has had minimum wind requirements and lots of wind readings were taken and recorded.

Quit stretching this out of proportion. The rule was in the SI and the RC didn't follow it or back it up. Shame on them.