Monitor sprinter Kwesi Browne is “strolling and speaking” after showing to fall unconscious following a crash contained in the velodrome on the Paris Olympics, his crew supervisor has stated.
The 30-year-old from Trinidad and Tobago collided with one other rider at velocity in a keirin repechage on Saturday night time, and was propelled into the wood boards. He then slid down the banking, showing to have misplaced consciousness, and lay on the apron on the backside of the observe, the place he was shortly handled by medical workers.
The racing contained in the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome was briefly suspended whereas Browne was lifted onto a stretcher and brought out of the observe centre. As he was wheeled away, he lifted his palms to take away his gloves, an act that introduced cheers from the group.
In an replace issued later within the night, Browne’s crew supervisor, Rowena Williams, stated the observe sprinter had not suffered any main accidents.
“He is advantageous. The medical crew right here on the velodrome did a beautiful job in taking good care of him,” Williams stated. “They did some fast X-rays to ensure that there have been no damaged bones, no main accidents to his head. Kwesi is okay.
“He is strolling and he is speaking, so we simply need to proceed to thank all people for his or her help, and to proceed to help Nicholas [Paul] as he goes via to the finals.”
Moments after the crash, Browne left the observe centre in a neck brace, with vital grazing seen down the correct aspect of his physique, to his leg, hip and elbow.
He’s now out of the boys’s keirin competitors, which is able to proceed with the quarterfinals on Sunday at 10:29am UK time. The ultimate will happen at 12:32pm UK time.
Browne’s crash was one among a handful that occurred contained in the velodrome on Saturday. Within the males’s Madison, there have been a number of collisions, the worst of which concerned Crew GB’s Ollie Wooden, who was struck from behind by one other rider.
“He hit me so laborious,” Wooden informed the media afterwards. The 28-year outdated was checked trackside by medical workers and allowed to complete the occasion.
“I felt like a crash take a look at dummy,” he stated. “If you end up not lively within the race, if a crash occurs in entrance of you, you possibly can see it and your physique will react, instincts will kick in. I used to be completely relaxed, untensed on the bike. I am alright. I’ll survive.”
