Workforce GB Olympic bike owner Katie Marchant has suffered a severe crash, resulting in the cancellation of the UCI Observe Champions League occasion in London.
Marchant, who was a part of the ladies’s group dash group that received gold with a brand new world file time on the Paris Olympics, was competing within the girls’s keirin at Lee Valley Bike Park.
The 31-year-old collided with Germany’s Alessa-Catriona Propster throughout the heats, inflicting the pair to fly over the barrier at excessive pace and land with their bikes within the crowd .
The race was stopped instantly, two drivers and 4 spectators acquired medical therapy, Marchant was taken to hospital for additional evaluation, and the UCI confirmed that the rest of the evening’s racing was cancelled.
“We are able to verify that following an incident in tonight’s girls’s keirin, the remaining matches of the UCI Discipline Championship at Lee Valley VeloPark have been cancelled,” the assertion learn.
British Biking additionally shared an extra assertion, including: “We are able to verify that two riders and 4 spectators have acquired medical therapy following an incident at tonight’s UCI Observe Champions League occasion at VeloPark in Lee Valley, London.
“The incident occurred throughout the Girls’s Keirin. Occasion medical employees responded instantly and one rider was transferred to hospital.
“WBD Sports activities, British Biking, Lee Valley VeloPark and the Worldwide Biking Union have unanimously determined to droop all racing that evening and need riders and all affected spectators a speedy restoration.
“We might additionally prefer to thank medical employees for his or her fast response and continued assist. We’re working intently with all events to assessment the incident earlier than taking acceptable motion.”
Saturday’s race in London is the final of 5 rounds within the UCI Observe and Discipline Championship season, which begins in France on November 23 and results in back-to-back races in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, subsequent weekend.
