Now this is a splinter.

[Stat Brother]

Check out the last 10 seconds (well the whole clip is just over 1 minute, but if you don't have time!), of the video at the bottom.
It's Chris Hoy winning the Kirin, but all maner of spills behind.

BBC Sport - Cycling - Sir Chris Hoy powers to keirin World Cup gold

 

[Normal Rob]

think they have changed the link...

BBC Sport - Cycling - Rider suffers unusual injury in World Cup cycling crash

 

[Everest]

I was wondering where the splinter was.

That bloke on the green bike ought to give up though.
He always leads the race but never finishes.

 

[Acker79]

No. This is a splinter

 

[Stat Brother]

I was wondering where the splinter was.

That bloke on the green bike ought to give up though.
He always leads the race but never finishes.

Blimey it's a foot long and sticking straight through the fellas calf muscle.

I take it your kids have to walk off a broken leg

 

[Everest]

Blimey it's a foot long and sticking straight through the fellas calf muscle.

I take it your kids have to walk off a broken leg

No, what I mean is that the video in your link didn't show it, but Rob's link did.

FYI, not my kids, me.
Fractured my ankle playing footy, then went to the pub before the hospital.
Found out I'd dislocated it too.
No wonder it hurt slightly.

 

[Stat Brother]

Ah tis strange as it was there when I linked it.

Anyway at least you were able to administer your own anesthetic.

 

[JJ McClure]

I've had worse.

 

[Acker79]

Talk about shin splints!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

He's got massive wood, he's got massive wood

 

[Stat Brother]

He, being in white, was the rider who was put back on his bike and being shoved towards the line, after about 20 secs of Robs clip.
He did actually sprint for the line, beating the Polish rider into 3rd, by 1/2 a wheel.

 

[black & white seagull]

We were right on the finish line when the crash happened - he actually got up and managed to ride his bike over the line with that plank sticking through his leg. It took a while for him to get medical attention as he'd continued around the bend and nobody seemed to realise he was there! As he was stretchered off, he was clapping the crowd and pointing to his 'souvenir'. That's hardcore.

I didn't manage to get a picture of him, but this is the NZ cyclist who was involved in the same crash.

 

[black & white seagull]

Apparently the splinter is still embedded and he's due to go into surgery shortly. According to a post on Twitter, the only way they can remove it is by surgically going in from both ends and spreading it apart and pulling it out. Nice.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

It makes a mockery of footballers that get helped off the field or stretchered off when there is no particular damage.

These guys were battered black and blue and yet still managed to run for the finish line.

 

[Stat Brother]

A grown man running in cleats, is a sight to behold.

Better still, fighting at the end of a race, it's like Todd Carty on ice skates, on less coordinated.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

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[Everest]

He did actually sprint for the line, beating the Polish rider into 3rd, by 1/2 a wheel.

I thought it was who crossed the line first, not how many wheels they were left with that mattered.

 

[Bean]

Nasty.

 

[Stat Brother]

[video=vimeo;20169195]http://vimeo.com/20169195[/video]

 

[NMH]

'tis only a splinter