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Velodrome interior (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Hugo Cardoso:Flickr)Commonwealth Games fans warned after spectator drops mobile phone on velodrome track during race
Fans attending track cycling events at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia have been warned to hold onto their mobile phones after a spectator dropped one onto the track during a race.
The incident happened during the first session of the opening day of competition at the Anna Meares Velodrome in Brisbane, Queensland, reports AFP.
The mobile phone was dropped during a heat of the mens’ team pursuit, where riders can reach speeds in excess of 60 kilometres an hour.
Fortunately, the dropped phone did not cause a crash, but the episode prompted a warning from the announcer at the packed venue.
He told spectators, "Please be careful, a mobile phone has just been dropped onto the track," adding that it could have caused a "major accident" had one of the riders struck it.
BBC Sport is currently showing the first evening session at the velodrome, which will see six gold medals decided.
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- Born_peddling 3 sec ago
Similar incident happened to another couple that was in the news early last year, instead of it being a cycle rack this person concealed themselves...
- David9694 5 min 2 sec ago
A fierce row at the heart of Reform UK - what's going on?...
- David9694 10 min 2 sec ago
Even if the guy gets this a lot, it's still worth my being the 940th person to note that it's Cllr De'Ath overseeing a whopping four roads in...
- don simon fbpe 17 min 57 sec ago
Either way, got to be better than being a professional prick.
- Rendel Harris 2 hours 10 min ago
It was a bit more complex than that I think, the Badger had already been suffering from tendonitis for quite some time before (many said due to his...
- quiff 1 hour 21 min ago
That's going to make life needlessly difficult when I want to (perfectly legitimately) filter through traffic or indeed get through my front door...
- Bmblbzzz 3 hours 54 min ago
Where are Zebedee and Ermintrude when you want them?
- Steve K 4 hours 7 min ago
Update on this: apparently it's all their Ti frames ever, except the HT Ti (no, no idea why). However, it's not transferable.
- Oldfatgit 4 hours 40 min ago
Cough *plotaroute.com*
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If they actually let genuine track cycling fans get the seats in the venue they wouldn't have as many problems
Ban the public - they always cause so many problems!
Just put some fence on.
Like Keirin Japanese often did in their velodrome/track.
A fence didn't stop Vincenzo Nibali getting hit by a mobile phone in a spectator's extended hand in the closing stages at Milan-San Remo, knocking it onto the road. A fence is just something else for people to lean over, paying more attention to their intended selfie than to the action right in front of them.
Whenever I have been to velodromes the marshalls have been pretty good at approaching individuals who are close to the barrier to move back. Personally I wouldn't want to be that close to be able to drop anything in the first place with the speeds they go at!
That bloke is just giving all of us mobile phone users a bad name.
Given the fact that just about everyone has a mobile on them, and that as far as I'm aware this 'dropping' incident is fairly rare, very clear general verbal and written warnings about dropping anything on the track should suffice.
Ban the public from carrying cameras. Watch the racing and leave the photos to the professionals.