As a result, the race was momentarily neutralised with Park escorted from the track on a stretcher. Viviani recovered to claim the gold medal ahead of Cavendish while O'Shea was 🐬14th in the sixth and final event of the omnium and ended up in seventh overall.
"It was my fault," Cavendish said oꦯf the accident. "I should've looked where I was going a bit more. I hope he's all riꦿght. I apologised to Elia, who went down."
Dutch journalist&nb🍌sp;Thijs Zonneveld spoke with Cavendish after ꧟the points race had concluded and explained in a series of tweets that he asked him 'whether he should have been DQ'd for his move'.
Media type: Twitter Media src: //twitter.com/thijszonneveld/status/765309969197588482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Media caption:Viviani absolved Cavendish of ca✨using the crash, explaining that Park's positioning was off.
"ಌIt's not his fault. The Kor🦩ean guy was halfway on his wheel to the right, normally you stay on the wheel. Cav was in the front and changed direction so it's all normal. It's a normal crash on the track," Viviani said. "For sure it was a bad moment in the race."
"When I saw the Korean guy in front of me go down I thought 'No chance. I'm going down'. My body was ok, I got back on the bike," he ad♊ded. "My adrenaline went up ♏so I was really ready. I saw the screen, I saw I was the leader of the omnium and I couldn't think."
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Speaking with Australian television station Seven, O'Shea explained it was a 'bit💯 of bad luck' and the crash didn't affect his overall position as he 'didn't have the legs anyway'.
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