00:00As the women entered their final lap at a neck-breaking 70 kilometers per hour,
00:05their handlebars got locked together and they no longer had control of their bikes.
00:09They were forced straight up to the edge of the banking and they were thrown over the barrier.
00:13One of the riders broke her arm while thankfully the other rider and the spectators escaped with
00:18minor cuts and bruises. But the scariest thing was this wasn't the first time this had happened
00:23at London's Lee Valley Velo Park. Only two years earlier, Matt Wolves had a similar incident when
00:29avoiding a crash on the track. He suffered a concussion and the spectators were left with
00:33some horrific cuts and bruises too. After the Matt Wolves incident, Lee Valley Velo Park spent 250,000
00:40pounds installing a 1.4 meter tall Perspex safety screen around the entire track, ensuring that an
00:47incident like this could definitely never ever happen again. And only three months after it was
00:52installed, it was put to the test during the UCI Champions League K-Run by Katie Marchant and Alessa
00:58Catriona Propster. Because...
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