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"A colgroup element's end tag may be omitted if the colgroup element is not immediately followed by a space character or a comment"
maybe it has already been fixed, but the latest html 5.1 nightly does not included a duplicate of this text.
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/syntax.html#syntax-tag-omission