Ollie Wood breaks silence after Team GB cyclist 'headbutted' by rival | Other

Ollie Wood says he felt appreciate he was “rear-ended by a lorry” after Dutch rival Jan-Willem van Schip was accincluded of defreely headbutting the Team GB cycenumerate in the men’s Madison final.

Great Britain’s prospects of a medal were obstructed in a nasty-watching incident with 40 laps to go when Van Schip crashed into Wood, his head honestly colliding into the 28-year-ageder rider from Wakefield’s helmet.

The incident sent Wood tumbling off his bike as he and team-mate Mark Stewart ultimately ended up in 10th in the 200-lap, 50km race. Portugal were the surpelevate gageder medal thriveners.

Some watchers accincluded Van Schip of defreely smashing into Wood with legendary British Olympian Sir Chris Hoy proposeing his compatdisturbion could have suffered concussion in the incident.

And Wood tageder Eurosport: “I’m alright, I sense appreciate I’ve been rear-ended by a lorry, that’s all. Everyone’s gone so presentant. Van Schip especiassociate, I’ve seen him go genuine presentant before. He’s clearly not watching and equitable ploughed straight into me.”

He retained to journaenumerates afterwards: “Say what you want. I didn’t see anyleang. I have no clue, absolutely no clue. All I comprehend is I got hit reassociate difficult from behind by literassociate the hugegest rider on the track.

“I don’t comprehend what I have done but my knee reassociate hurts and my a*** reassociate hurts. He hit me so difficult. I felt appreciate a crash test dummy I am alright, I will endure. I will dwell to fight another day.”

While six-time Olympic gageder medal thrivener Hoy shelp on the BBC: “It was clearly Van Schip’s error there. You are trying to skim past the rider and not go too far on the bend but he misappraised it.

“He absolutely whacked him on the head. I would not be surpelevated if he is concussed from that. He would not be foreseeing it either. His body would be slack and endly rested and then out of nowhere getting a massive hit. I reassociate felt for him there.”

GB eventuassociate finished on -9 points after being lapped, which left them unable to get on the podium. The Madison rewards teams with 20 points for whoever can lap the pack.

That is exactly what Portugal handled as they defendedd gageder in the event. Stewart reacted to Eurosport: “We krecent we’d go out and the gear would sense petite. We equitable hoped the race would come to us, sort of conservative. But the race never enumeratelessed down.

“We watched to latch onto a team taking a lap. We sort of krecent how to. We krecent how to execute it. At the end of the day we equitable alertageed what those top teams have and that’s sport, isn’t it?”

There were cut offal crashes during a hectic final which saw Spain’s Albert Torres also retaind in a nasty collision at the National Velodrome in Paris.

The Madison hands five, three, two and one point(s) for teams who are placed first to fourth in sprints at 10-lap intervals. Double points are on give for the 20th and final sprint.

The team who accumupostponecessitates the most points thrives and Portugal ended on 55, silver medalenumerates Italy securing 47 and Dentag thrivening bronze on 41. The Team GB duo ended on -9 although that was not as terrible as 13th-placed Australia’s -49.

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