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The thing is that these things seem to happen with Cav when things aren't quite going his way; Hansen laps the pack and gets 20 points, Cav inexplicably barrels into a rider he's just finished looking at. Reminded me of the 2014 Tour when he got boxed in on the sprint finish at his mum's home town and decided to try to push Gerrans aside, fucking his shoulder in the process leaving Kittel to take the win, but there's other occasions to pick from too.
It's a strange one-a generous evaluation would be is to think he's just frustrated and trying to pull off an audacious manoeuvre to pull it back but that still doesn't explain his impact with the Korean dude as there was nothing to gain and the slomo doesn't even show him flinch.
I'm just glad Viviani could still get back on the bike and finish-it would have been gutting for him to go out that way and we would have all missed that ten solid minutes of elated crying at the end.
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I don't think it was intentional. It looked like he was watching Viviani coming and went to drop down, but expected to get round Park. He either misjudged his speed or Park didn't notice the move and failed to react.
I really, really dislike Cav, so I'm not sticking up for him in any way but I'm going to say it was a dangerous dick move rather than actually malicious.