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I guess he didn't as he was lucky to stay on.
I guess he didn't as he was lucky to stay on.
You can say that again!
Looked like a stupid move for cab, but I don't understand how if you crash you can just sit down and have a rest for a few laps and join back in and count as being on the same lap?
The race was neutralised for safety reasons so nothing counts. There's a rule in track racing that a crash or mechanical you can have up to 5 laps out to fix it all and rejoin as if you're still level pegging.
Similar rule in circuit racing, a puncture or crash and you're allowed one lap out, you rejoin in the same position you were in when the incident occurred and you're treated as being still in the race.
He glanced back before cutting down and braced for the impact.
I've not ridden on the track so can't really comment ie reduced vision / difficult to tell closing speeds?
He's been very aggressive citing down all race
so if he was to be warned, what does that mean? I can assume that "don't do it again" really doesn't amount to much, and if it had been seen as anything other than clumsy then they'd have pulled him by now wouldn't they?
Mike Tyson had the upper cut... Cavendish has the lower cut.. 😀
FFS BBC WHY SWITCH CHANNELS NOW!!!
That's a pretty good rule - I'm getting quite into this race now, If they can have a 5 lap sit down i probably could go & make some toast and not miss too much - maybe time it between the sprints
I can see this one slipping away from him actually, he's beginning to run out of time to gain a lap. Everyone is making it very difficult for Cav, he's being marked out of it.
Dig in cav
Interesting group here
.....or not. Thought they were going to get a lap in
Yeah me too
Is this exciting or stressful ?
Looks like he's defending bronze to me, rather than going for silver.
He needs to do it off sprints now, he can't gain a lap with 20 to go.
Stressful !
Why are they waving yellow flags at people? Warnings I'm guessing...
If Hansen hadn't thrown away the elimination race he'd be WAY out front now. Cav can get silver, very unlikely he'll get gold.
Silver
Thankfully I was wrong. Well done to cavendish
SILVER!!
Good effort that. Well deserved win from Viviani as well, that was a really class ride from him.
Arguably Cav lost the gold by messing up in the elimination as well
He appears to have done a very good job of justifying his selection though
Superb ride, amazing race
Well done Cav
Cav gets his medal. Viviani was bery good, never threatened
Fair play Cav - read the race well and did what he needed to do.
Was hoping he'd go for a lap. I guess Silver is better than a potential nothing...
Bless, look at Viviani! He's in floods of tears. What a top ride from him, he really deserved that win, especially coming back from that crash. 🙂
Was Cav having a little dig at Hoy when the mic picked up in that interview? Heard something along the lines of "he'd be straight over for Brad"...
Yes a very worthy winner.
Great work from cav, not least putting up with Jill Douglas infuriating platitudes straight after a shattering race.
Intriguing interview - he is both a simple and complex person!! I wish he had won gold but still a great achievement.
He looked whacked at the end there!!!
Blimey they dont mess about between races
Watching it on Danish TV, apparently Lasse asked Cav to go with him on a break near the end but Cav didn't hear it.
I think he meant that he was stood there ready to talk but they had to cut to Jill yet - if they would be straight on it for Brad.
Anyway, I liked that interview. I like the guy - he was truthful. He wanted gold but didn't get it, so that's what he said.
FFS they've changed channel yet again!
Come on laura
Got to love Trott
made it look easy
What a rider,cool as.
Laura. Time for a wave 8)
elimination race masterclass
**** yeah!
@everyone,yes, constant channel switching is infuriating.
Trott look super strong.
Cav should be happy with his Silver, he said himself Viviani was the strongest
Nice ride by Trott
So, touch wood, that's team GB likely to be taking a medal in every event they qualified a team/rider for at current progress.
Which makes you wonder even more how we didn't manage to qualify for the other event.
Which makes you wonder even more how we didn't manage to qualify for the other event.
Someone ought to lose their job for that .... Oh yeah.
Gold medal performance by BBC, brilliantly ignoring the fact that Cavendish barged into a competitor, causing him to be stretchered off.
In the words of the English national anthem:
O Lord our God arise
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall
Nice to see the Cav haters are allowed to stay up late
Gold medal performance by BBC, brilliantly ignoring the fact that Cavendish barged into a competitor, causing him to be stretchered off.
I just watched the race on the BBC, and they must have showed the crash about half a dozen times, multiple angles, slow motion. Is that what you mean by ignored?
But they didn't ignore it at all, it was spoken about throughout the commentary.
I just watched the race on the BBC, and they must have showed the crash about half a dozen times, multiple angles, slow motion. Is that what you mean by ignored?
And have you heard a single critical word?
BBC channel hopping coast me about 8 laps. In going for the remote control I knocked over my glass of rioja all over the cream coloured rug. Cav racing was replaced by kitchen towel and Vanish spray, plus a healthy dose of ear chewing (not the nice type) from Mrs Sinatra
Critical in what way? At the time they suggested it was probably Cav's fault, but only the haters are suggesting it was anything other than an accident. I note that he just picked up a silver medal, so presumably those officials who know a lot more about the event than all the keyboard warriors also thought that he didn't do anything wrong enough to penalise him.
They were very definite about saying it was Cavs fault. How much more critical do you want them to be?
Lucky you are not French copa.... Try their words
And have you heard a single critical word?
Would you like Jill Douglas to lodge an appeal?
They were very definite about saying it was Cavs fault. How much more critical do you want them to be?
The kind of critical analysis that would have been devoted had a Team GB athlete just been hospitalised by somebody barging into them?
I'm amazed those sorts of crashes don't happen more often in points / scratch / keirin.
Actually thinking about it, perhaps not keirin - they pretty much do in that.
You'll be wanting http://www.kbs.co.kr/ copa
Some bloody stupid comments being made on this by armchair critics, who I presume have never even ridden on the track. "barging"? I note somebody else also suggested he braced for impact or leant on the other guy - which suggests you didn't even watch the same race, where Cav's back wheel caught the front wheel of the Korean rider.
It has cost him a great deal in all senses of the word, I for one am pleased for him.
From the Torygraph
"The return had its ups and downs. Cavendish showed he was committed to Project Rio by renting a flat up in Manchester to use for when he had his track blocks.
And with no funding from GB, and with the extra rent and taxes accrued from living and working in the UK, it is no exaggeration to say that Cavendish gave up a good chunk of his own money to do this, running into the hundreds of thousands of pounds. In the end he was just unable to achieve the gold he longed for, but an Olympic silver is no small feat."
I just hope he can be happy with a silver - he will at least be able to reflect after the games that Sagan doesn't having an Olympic medal of any colour 😈
... Yet...
You're thinking he might be able to get one in Tokyo?
I just hope he can be happy with a silver - he will at least be able to reflect after the games that Sagan doesn't having an Olympic medal of any colour
You're thinking he might be able to get one in Tokyo?
You don't think he's got a chance in the XC then?
You don't think he's got a chance in the XC then?
Not a chance.
I agree. Can't see Sagan getting a medal.
Nope, me neither.
Anyone know if th XC is on TV? And when..
Ignore, found it.
Women:
Saturday 20th 1630.
Men:
Sunday 21st at 1630.
Crashes are just a part of track racing, there have been big ones in the women's scratch, kieren and team pursuit so far as well, you've got lots of people in a small space. Cav was at fault but suggesting he would take down someone who was nowhere near, in terms of medal position, at that stage of the race is crazy.
Frustrating that I can't see any BBC coverage of the games while on holiday in Greece on t'internet! No footage of Cav's skirmish on YouTube either other than "photos" of the aftermath...
I've been watching some bbc coverage in Denmark via Hola.
I find it hard to explain why cavendish would take that line so soon after clocking the rider when he turned around.
You didn't look very hard.
Maybe he should have looked at the bottom, where it says 'available to uk users only'...
Cav's incident was given similar commentary treatment to the incident where Viviani nearly took out another rider in similar fashion. It was only because of the skill of the other rider a serious crash was avoided.
I am amazed crashes don't happen more often in this event and there must have been hundreds of near incidents throughout the race, any of which could have resulted in a serious crash. To single out Cav would be unfair.
Maybe he should have looked at the bottom, where it says 'available to uk users only'...
Apologies! - There are ways around that I believe though!
To single out Cav would be unfair.
I don't think anyone is singling him out, It's just that it stood out way above any of the other incidents as it was so ridiculous.
Do you know, I like Cav generally by I find his overnight attitude a bit distasteful. In interview he's got all sparky, admitting to pulling back on the individual pursuit so as not to break Wiggins record and give fuel to media speculation about thier relationship; he's happy to win a medal but disappointed with Silver, and told the press he won't ride the next Olympics becuase he can't be - his words - "arsed" to listen to the media baying for acceptance of Gold only.
The British camp has behaved very well until now, then we get whiney little snot bag from Cav which puts a shadow on things.
Sounds to me that despite the denial he actually does have a chip on his shoulder abut the whole thing, which in some respects I can't blame him for I s'pose.