I guess he didn’t as he was lucky to stay on.

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.

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?

FFS BBC WHY SWITCH CHANNELS NOW!!!

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.

Interesting group here

Yeah me too

Looks like he’s defending bronze to me, rather than going for silver.

Stressful !

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.

Thankfully I was wrong. Well done to cavendish

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

Well done Cav

Fair play Cav – read the race well and did what he needed to do.

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. 🙂

Yes a very worthy winner.

Great work from cav, not least putting up with Jill Douglas infuriating platitudes straight after a shattering race.

Blimey they dont mess about between races

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.

Come on laura

made it look easy