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Lisandra Guerra splinter YouTube stillVideo: Cuban track cyclist gets huge splinter in arm after crash
A cyclist from Cuba who crashed during the Pan American Games in Toronto on Saturday needed stitches after a splinter from the track became embedded in her arm following a crash.
TV footage clearly shows each end of the splinter, about 8 centimetres long, protruding from Lisandra Guerra’s upper right arm.
The crash took place during the first heat of Guerra’s sprint quarter final against Mexico’s Luz Gaxiola, and led to the Cuban, who needed four stitches, withdrawing from the competition.
The event was won by Canada’s Monique Sullivan, who beat compatriot Kate O’Sullivan 2-0 in the final.
Four years ago, Malaysian track sprinter Azizulhasni Awang needed surgery to have an even longer splinter removed from his leg following a crash at the Track World Cup in Manchester.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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ouch, best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Think Jason Queally at Meadowbank is the winner:
'The piece of wood was 18 inches long, two inches wide and half an inch thick.As Hoy, who was involved in the crash, recalled in his autobiography: “It was more like a fence post than a splinter and Jason’s scream of ‘I’ve got half the f***ing track in my back’ was not unreasonable in the circumstances.”'
Supposedly, when the ambulance crew arrived, they rushed to help the figure lying on the ground, but this turned out to be a spectator who had fainted at the sight of Queally's injury...
God knows how she maintained her composure. I feel ill.
We had a guy working in our office a few months back who wiped out on the Manchester Velodrome and was left with some ruined shorts and a big chunk of wood that they pulled out of his back to keep as souvenirs.
She seems remarkably un fussed by having a 4 inch arrow through her arm.....I'd be squealing....