Katie Archibald won Madison gold with fractured wrist
Sunday 6 November 2016 16:13, UK
Katie Archibald suffered a fractured wrist in claiming women's Madison gold with Manon Lloyd on day two of the Track World Cup in Glasgow on Saturday.
Archibald and Lloyd, on her 20th birthday, tumbled to the track after 18 laps of the 80-lap event before responding to win the first global women's Madison competition.
The 22-year-old Archibald later took to Twitter to post photos of the crash and on Sunday morning underwent X-rays at hospital which showed a fracture of her distal radius (forearm) and scaphoid, British Cycling said.
Archibald, the Olympic team pursuit champion from Milngavie, north of Glasgow, is the star attraction for the home crowd this weekend.
After winning the two-person relay with Lloyd which features sprints every 10 laps, Archibald wiped away blood from her abrasions before joking about crashes being part and parcel of her job.
"It was a pretty exciting race," said Archibald, who got "a bit of an adrenaline kick" from the fall.
"Somebody closed down when we came into a change coming into a sprint.
"Someone closed down on top of Manon and I was still there. There was nowhere to go.
"We all came down in a domino, which is kind of a hazard of the trade.
"Something about dangers in the work place. You can say that light-heartedly when we both got back up."
Archibald posted a photo on Twitter of her plastered right arm in a sling.
She wrote: "Rocked up to A&E and told them I need a visually impacting treatment to garner as much sympathy as possible. They delivered."
And she was fit enough to greet fans before the final session of action at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome on Sunday afternoon.
"Most people have been really glad that it's not my autograph hand that's hurt but it was just a lot of 'get well soons'," she said.
Archibald is now scheduled to see a specialist on Monday in Manchester to determine the full extent of the injury, but it should not impact on her preparation for next April's Track World Championships in Hong Kong.
