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Junior Track Worlds crash 2015 (picture Alexandre Vinokourov on Instagram)Video: Alexandre Vinokourov films huge crash at Junior Track Worlds
This must be one of the worst crashes we’ve seen in a velodrome – and it happened this week at the World Junior Track Championships in Astana, Khazakstan.
It was posted to Instagram by none other than Olympic road race champion and Astana general manager Alexandre Vinokourov with the words, “This is a tough sport!”
The event in question was yesterday’s scratch race – which eight of the 20 starters failed to finish. Hopefully none of their injuries was too severe.
– Video: Horrific crash as cyclist hits velodrome starting gate that officials failed to remove
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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Look over there people! Huge bike crash.
Love the way you can never predict which direction the comments will take.
Astana obviously don't pay him enough because he's clearly filmed that with a potato.
I thought the stray bike was going to take down the riders higher up for a second there. Not nice.
Also, it's like fuckin' dictionary corner in here.
Next time Road cc mention him, can you please insert his full achievements:
"none other than Olympic road race champion, convicted drugs cheat and Astana general manager Alexandre Vinokourov"
I think the news organisation that makes it's money from the written word has the burden of responsibility; not some anonymous dude that leaves a comment.
Yes, but there are ways of bringing it to the attention of the aforementioned news organisation. Taking the piss while committing the same or similar errors, and claiming grammar pedantry, is not it.
Those bikes bounce well!
I'm more concerned about 'Alexandre' rather than 'Alexander'
As hdsl said, "have" for "half" was a typo, pure and simple.
"None "can be followed by singular or plural verb. I chose the former because I prefer it (and I was thinking in my head as "none" = "not one" while typing).
Just because you'd choose the latter doesn't mean I'm incorrect.
Grammarians have been arguing over it since well before the internet, and there's still no hard and fast rule - this isn't France, after all.
Funnily enough Aleksandr (no e before or after the r) tweeted that there were no serious injuries, so that statement was redundant
You'd think that a nice smooth surface with no street funiture would allow the riders to slide gracefully to a halt.
But no.
Horrible to watch and the thought of splinters makes me cringe.
Thats why Im retired-ouch
Sweet lord, the grammar in this article is shameful...
"Big stack takes out nearly have the field in men's scratch race"
"Hopefully none of their injuries was too severe."
Pedantry session over, feel a lot better now
Sweet lord indeed. Standards. I think it's particularly bad because of the 'was' which reminds me of how some people talk. Innit.
I don't see anything wrong with the grammar. Your issue in the first quote is presumably with 'have', which is just a typo for 'half'. Presumably in the second quote you object to the use of 'Hopefully' as a sentence adverb, in which it modifies the entire sentence rather than a verb or noun. Many adverbs can be used like this, and I started my last sentence with one. There's a tradition of pointlessly complaining about hopefully but not the others.
"None" can take a singular and a plural verb so the sentence is correct.
The lack of the first person singular nominative pronoun in you last sentence, however, is shocking!
One could argue that the omission of the definite article before the word Pedantry is also incorrect, and the omission of the verb to be too.
But you have a lesser chance of winning the argument for forgetting to include a subject before the verb (unless you're Yoda).
People in glass houses, etc...