LONDON (AFP) - Olympic gold medallist Matt Walls has been injured after being sent flying over the barriers and into the crowd following a huge crash on day three of the Commonwealth Games track cycling, which also saw spectators hurt. The BBC’s Laura Scott reported that one of the spectators was “wheeled off covered in blood”.
Walls, who won omnium gold in Tokyo last year, was competing in the men’s scratch race on Sunday when the accident occurred.
The rest of the session - there was one sprint race left - was cancelled as medical staff attended to several riders, including Walls.
An ambulance was waiting at the Lee Valley Velodrome in London to take the 24-year-old to hospital.
It was the second heavy crash involving Team England riders in the space of two days after sprinter Joe Truman briefly lost consciousness before being taken away in a wheelchair following a collision with Australia’s Matthew Glaetzer in the second round of the men’s keirin on Saturday.