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Sarah Lee avoids crash and wraps up Track World Cup stop with keirin bronze; completes two-medal haul after sprint gold
- Hong Kong ace claims bronze to add to earlier gold medal in Paris
- Series moves on to Canada this week
- World champion Degrendele taken to hospital after heavy crash in race
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Sarah Lee Wai-sze avoided a crash in the last few metres of the race to wrap up a successful opening leg of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup series after clinching a bronze medal in the women’s keirin in Paris.
At the world class Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome, the 31-year-old captured her second medal after a gold in the sprint in the opening event of the season which also served as the first qualification event in the campaign leading up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
But the London Games bronze medallist was lucky not to have clipped the bike of Belgium’s world champion Nicky Degrendele who was sent to hospital after crashing heavily close to the finish of the race.
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Degrendele tried to slip past Lee and Russia’s Daria Shmeleva but instead crashed, sending her bike and herself sprawling across the floor.
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Lee and Shmeleva swerved slightly to avoid making contact with Degrendele who was taken on a stretcher to hospital after the six-rider final.
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