British Cyclist Mark Cavendish Body Slams into Competitors

This is brilliant.

rosshm16 wrote:

Behavior like this is why America ceceded.

ThunderThighs wrote:

trollism wrote:

And how did that make you feel?

It made me more outraged than watching that other smug Brit, Bradley Wiggins.

Funny how people always hate who they are closest to. Amercans really are poor losers. Perhaps we should dope up like your spint squad has done for the past 40 years

UK teeth wrote:

Funny how people always hate who they are closest to. Amercans really are poor losers. Perhaps we should dope up like your spint squad has done for the past 40 years

What are you talking about? The Brits are already doped up as much as humanly possible. Cavendish is so doped up, he almost broke the world record for the 4 km pursuit while competing in the middle of the omnium. Only 1 second between Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins pursuit times.

Not a big fan of Cavendish wrote:

Cavendish is full of tricks, earlier in the evening he did an illegal undertake on a part of the track you aren't allowed to ride on and got away with it. In TdF stage finishes he leans in to rivals to muscle them out of the way too.

That was the elimination race the day before and he was eliminated for that move (he was going to be eliminated by finishing last anyway, so it was desperation). It's odd that you people have all these strong opinions, but haven't watch a second of the racing.

Interesting to hear what Viviani had to say about it, yes, but I'm guessing all you huge fans already know.

Cav was most likely looking back past the Korean and not at him. The Korean came up the track just as much as cav went down it. I don't know etiquette for track cycling, but on the road that would be the Korean's fault. It's cycling; accidents happen. Nothing intentional or malicious. Maybe you all should move on to the water polo players who try to down each other if you want someone arrested so badly.

I just had a horrible thought. What if the Olympics games were really 'gladiator' celebrations then the idea was abandoned for years/centuries only to become the modern Olympics. With that idea, and this Cavendish body slamming another competitor, I get the spine curling feeling that the idea of gladiatorism type of Olympics is coming back.

Yeah or Nah?

i chose D2 wrote:

I don't know etiquette for track cycling, but on the road that would be the Korean's fault.

Horse sh**. If you're minding your own business, holding your line cycling on a road and some British wank** comes out of nowhere and veers into you, it's not your fault. Typical British a*hole.

And even without swimming, US would be crushing GB in medals. And why take out swimming, GB is surrounded by water on all sides, or is the pool temperature not royalty certified? What a despicable archaic country, good riddance to our racist colonisers. All you have going for you is Mo Farah, I like how you claim him as one of yours!

nairobi2birmingham wrote:

i chose D2 wrote:

I don't know etiquette for track cycling, but on the road that would be the Korean's fault.

Horse sh**. If you're minding your own business, holding your line cycling on a road and some British wank** comes out of nowhere and veers into you, it's not your fault. Typical British a*hole.

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You don't mind your own business in a bike race.

Has the British cheat been disqualified yet?

No, I don't me Mo.

No, I don't mean that doping woman cyclist. Not the other doping woman cyclist. You know, the one with the hidden positive test. No, the OTHER one with the hidden positive test.

No, I don't mean all of your sprinters have have to dope to break 10.0, let alone win anything.

Has the British cheat been disqualified yet?

Looked like a dick-move on Cav's part.

OK then,So a rider in the medal positions deliberately "slams" into an also-ran in a move that's at least as likely to take him down as anyone else. And this makes sense to you?Right.....

ThunderThighs wrote:

From the track cycling omnium event going on right now:

https://streamable.com/hyo2

The British cyclist Mark Cavendish looks twice behind him and then, what I can only describe as a malicious and intentional act, body slams into the Korean rider causing the Korean rider to be hospitalized on a stretcher. This also caused a chain reaction that crashed out other cyclists.

This is despicable and the Brit should be thrown out of the event.

In other words,

ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.

nairobi2birmingham wrote:

i chose D2 wrote:

I don't know etiquette for track cycling, but on the road that would be the Korean's fault.

Horse sh**. If you're minding your own business, holding your line cycling on a road and some British wank** comes out of nowhere and veers into you, it's not your fault. Typical British a*hole.

And even without swimming, US would be crushing GB in medals. And why take out swimming, GB is surrounded by water on all sides, or is the pool temperature not royalty certified? What a despicable archaic country, good riddance to our racist colonisers. All you have going for you is Mo Farah, I like how you claim him as one of yours!

Did you hear what Viviani had to say about the crash? (You might have to look him up, I presume you didn't watch the race.)

Viviani pinned the blame on the South Korean, in spite of the fact that he was involved in the resulting crash. That is not the place on the track to overlap wheels, and Park should have known better as Cav's intent was pretty clear.

PCW wrote:

Viviani pinned the blame on the South Korean, in spite of the fact that he was involved in the resulting crash. That is not the place on the track to overlap wheels, and Park should have known better as Cav's intent was pretty clear.

Viviani knew exactly what happened, because he was on the attack and Cav was covering it. The Korean should have been on Cav's wheel, not below and overlapping.

Just ban all British cyclists:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vogel-questions-great-britains-progress-from-cannon-fodder-to-olympic-champions/

If y'all want to complain about a British cyclist, let's complain about Callum Skinner in the keirin repechage pushing the American out of the sprint lane and down onto the blue band.

anyone actually know how this sport works? is there a rule for right-of-way?

on it's face that looked brutal, but need some context.

it seems like the typical path is the one Cav took, using the bank to turn vs just slowly hugging the inside.

or maybe he's just a d*ck?

i chose D2 wrote:

If y'all want to complain about a British cyclist, let's complain about Callum Skinner in the keirin repechage pushing the American out of the sprint lane and down onto the blue band.

He got disqualified. What you whining about?