Neah Evans has suffered a blow to her gold medal hopes within the ladies’s omnium after crashing throughout the scratch race.
The Crew GB star misplaced management whereas using in the course of two different riders and completed in final place.
Evans, who already has a silver medal in Paris, will endure concussion protocol earlier than the ominium continues later.
There have been fears she might need hit her head within the crash, however she was capable of get again to her ft, get again on her bike and end the race – albeit final of the 22 rivals.
The winner of the omnium is whoever is ready to receive essentially the most factors all through the primary 4 races, and her crash in race one has given her an uphill problem to get into medal competition.
Neah Evans crashed throughout the first race of the ladies’s omnium – a blow to her medal hopes
She misplaced management of her bike whereas sandwiched between two riders and fell to the bottom
She managed to get on her bike and end the race however has an uphill problem of getting a medal
Evans (left) already has a medal from the Paris Video games with a silver within the ladies’s madison
She beforehand took a silver medal alongside Elinor Barker within the ladies’s madison ultimate on Friday.
Evans turns into the newest Crew GB athlete to be concerned in a crash – albeit, not as controversial because the one Ollie Wooden suffered on Saturday.
Wooden gave the impression to be headbutted by Dutch rival Jan Williem van Schip.
With simply 39 laps remaining, Wooden was all of the sudden catapulted into a tough fall after his helmet was struck from behind by Willem van Schip.
It was inconclusive from tv replays whether or not the contact was deliberate, although it appeared ugly contained in the velodrome, with the collision leaving Woods sprawled throughout the boards.
The Dutch staff have been disqualified with Willem van Schip fined 1,000CHF (£720) for’ improper conduct and habits that endangers one other rider (blow with the helmet)’, in line with the commissaires’ choice.
After limping into the interview space with a closely swollen knee, he mentioned: ‘He hit me so exhausting. I felt like a crash check dummy.
‘I’ll survive. I did not see something.’
Dutch rider Jan-Willem van Schip (above) appeared to headbutt Ollie Wooden on Saturday
With simply 39 laps remaining, Wooden was all of the sudden catapulted into a tough fall
Nice Britain’s Ollie Woods hits the velodrome deck after colliding with a Dutch opponent
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Wooden added: ‘It is only a bit totally different if you get hit from behind – you do not see it coming. There are lots of people resting and using at anyone time. As an alternative of taking a excessive line across the monitor, I assumed he’d lower it a bit wonderful and simply ploughed into me.
‘I’ve not watched it again. I am making an attempt to catch my breath. I’ve no clue, completely no clue. All I do know is I received hit actually exhausting from behind by actually the largest rider on the monitor.
‘Everybody’s cognitive features began to say no quickly at one given level – you can see there have been folks having laps of focus. When there are folks everywhere in the monitor, it’s inevitable that persons are going to collide wheels or no matter.
‘I do not know what I’ve accomplished however my knee actually hurts and my a*** actually hurts.
‘I really feel like I have been rear-ended by a lorry.’
