New Zealand track cyclist Nick Kergozou has been hospitalised in Glasgow and will miss out on competing at his third Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
The endurance rider from Invercargill sustained a back injury during training.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old is in hospital in a stable condition and is being supported by his family. He is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n
Fellow track cyclist, Keegan Hornblow, will replace him in the Men’s Pursuit event.<\/p>\n
Hornblow is at his first Games.<\/p>\n
New Zealand team chef de mission, Nigel Avery, expressed the team’s sympathy for Kergozou.<\/p>\n
“We know this is a hugely disappointing outcome for Nick after all his hard work in getting to the Games.<\/p>\n
“The New Zealand team is right behind him as he now focuses on recovery and we look forward to seeing him back in competition when he’s ready.”<\/p>\n
Cycling starts at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand track cyclist Nick Kergozou has been hospitalised in Glasgow and will miss out on competing at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-548714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}