Laura. Time for a wave 8)

**** yeah!

Nice ride by Trott

Which makes you wonder even more how we didn’t manage to qualify for the other event.

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:

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?

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.

Lucky you are not French copa…. Try their words

The kind of critical analysis that would have been devoted had a Team GB athlete just been hospitalised by somebody barging into them?

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.

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?

Not a chance.

Nope, me neither.

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.

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.

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.

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.