Aerobar Position - IMTX Champ P. Nilsson

Hi All, the picture below from IMTX champ Patrick Nilsson got me very confused. Aerobars looks twisted but garmin mount is on the correct position. Does anyone knows if this is the way he have his bars set up?

image https://www.slowtwitch.com/articles/images/8/164788-largest_Kona15Mbike8.jpg

My guess is that because triathlon doesn’t have bike requirements like the UCI constrained time trialists, he likes to ride with his hands overlapping and this makes it easy for him to do so. Also a thought I had is that without the bar ends to grab forcefully on to it would kind of “force” his grip in the aero position to be relaxed which is very important over the course of an Ironman bike leg.

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Found a better picture…

image http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Patrik+Nilsson+Mainova+IRONMAN+European+Championship+Pj_HpIy13Mpl.jpg

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