Australia is leading a group of cycling nations in pushing for better safety measures to prevent a repeat of Sunday’s horror crash at the Commonwealth Games
The AusCycling performance director, Jesse Korf, who is in Birmingham for the 2022 Games, told the Guardian he was already speaking to a number of counterparts about presenting a “united front” to the governing body the Union Cycliste Internationale .
During the final lap of a qualifying heat for the men’s scratch race at the Lee Valley VeloPark on Sunday, Walls was involved in a crash with half a dozen riders. The Tokyo 2020 gold medallist was lifted over the railing by his momentum and sent hurtling towards shocked spectators. Walls received medical attention for almost an hour before being taken to hospital, but was subsequently released with only minor injuries.
“It’s not the first rider to go over a railing or the first track where it has happened,” Korf said. The performance director indicated that Australia and other nations intended to lodge a proposal with the UCI about mandatory improvements to velodrome safety measures. “Rules in ice hockey have been set such that there is a plexiglass wall there to protect the athletes and the spectators. So there is some precedent in other sports and it’s certainly a conversation worth having.”to do more to prevent “dangerous” incidents.
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