Italian rider impaled by huge splinter at European Junior Track Championships

Action from the final day at the UCI Track World Cup in London

Action from the final day at the UCI Track World Cup in London (Image credit: Getty Images)

17-year-old Lorenzo Gobbo was seriously injured when he was impaled by a half-metre long splinter in a crash during the Junior and U23 European Track Championships at the Eddy Merckx velodrome in Gent on Friday.

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