Commonwealth Video games biking velodrome cleared after spectacular crash into crowd

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The Commonwealth Video games morning biking session was canceled Sunday and spectators had been requested to go away the velodrome after a severe crash through the second warmth of the boys’s scratch race.

Staff England’s Matt Partitions and Isle of Man’s Matt Bostock had been concerned within the crash together with a number of different riders.

Partitions was catapulted over the boundaries and into the group on the Lee Valley VeloPark, the 24-year-old receiving therapy for greater than 40 minutes earlier than leaving in an ambulance.

“Following a crash within the biking males’s scratch race, Matt Partitions has been taken to hospital for precautionary checks,” Staff England mentioned on Twitter.

Spectators had been additionally damage after Partitions and his bike got here excessive of the boundaries on the excessive banking at a nook of the observe.

Partitions was making an attempt to keep away from riders who had fallen in a crash decrease down the banking, however he clipped one other wheel and went excessive.