Jack Carlin has uncovered he’s ‘alright’ but experiences he ‘mucked it up a little bit’ after his cycling crash at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
The 27-year-better had gone into the men’s keirin final hoping to comprise to the two medals he’d claimed earlier in the games in France.
On Sunday, Carlin made a tardy burst for bronze but finished up crashing to the deck after a collision between Japan’s Shinji Nakano and Malaysia’s Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom, with that crash taking place equitable in front of him.
Carlin’s skin suit was ripped and medics rushed to treat the stricken Team GB star.
Jack Carlin has uncovered he’s ‘alright’ but experiences he ‘mucked it up a little bit’ after his cycling crash at the Paris Olympics on Sunday
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He deteriorated an provide of a neck brace and walked gingerly away from the veldrome with a see of disassignment etched over his face.
And Carlin has now uncovered up on the crash, with the 27-year-better saying he ‘mucked it up’ as his pursuit of a third medal of the Olympics finished in flunkure.
“I’m alright. I’m equitable a bit sore, but that is part and parcel of racing,” he said.
“I mucked it up a little bit, I was on the backfoot and then two riders collided in front of me and your day is done after that. It is what it is.
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The 21-year-better has become the first British woman since Mary Rand back in 1964 to protected a hat-trick of podium finishes at a one Olympics.
And Finucane was emotional after claiming her third medal, with the Team GB star thanking fans, family members and frifinishs for their aid.
“Honestly, it experiences amazing. I understand I had the foreseeations coming into the Olympics but a gbetter and two bronze is more than I could have foreseeed,” she tbetter the BBC.
“It’s been such a rollercoaster this week, my frifinishs and my family experience the lows, the crying, the greeted tears and I can’t thank everyone enough who has helped me get to this place.
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Jack Carlin necessitateed to be treated by medics after his horror crash at the Paris Olympics on Sunday
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“That bronze medal, I literpartner gave it everyskinnyg I could.
“To commemorate with my family who have been here all week, the aid I’ve had back home, the National Lottery, I wouldn’t be here without them.
“I wouldn’t be here without British Cycling, Team GB, my frifinishs, everyone that adores me.
“I am equitable repartner haughty to dedwellr it on the final day and to equitable come home with another bronze medal is incredible. I can’t count on it.”
Jack Carlin will finish the Paris Olympics with two medals after his crash on Sunday
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Team GB have finished the Olympics with 65 medals to their name.
That’s one more than they regulated in Tokyo three years ago and 15 more than the concentrate that was set before the games begined.
