{"id":552511,"date":"2026-07-31T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552511\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:54:11","slug":"commonwealth-games-serious-crashes-are-becoming-too-common-says-hospitalised-nz-cyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552511\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games: \u2018Serious crashes are becoming too common\u2019, says hospitalised NZ cyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kergozou was to compete at his third Commonwealth Games and wrote alongside the vision on social media that he was \u201cmotivated and determined to race\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen plenty of close calls over the years. This time, I was involved in one. A crash at over 60km\/h left me with three transverse process fractures. Luckily these will just take some time to heal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRisk is part of our sport. Preventable risk shouldn\u2019t be. Serious crashes are becoming too common<\/a>, and athlete safety needs to be treated as a responsibility \u2013 not a reaction after something goes wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m fortunate my injuries weren\u2019t worse. I\u2019m taking each day at a time and this has been a reality check to say the least.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kergozou was released from hospital in time to attend the 4000m team pursuit at Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and watched the team of Marshall Erwood, Daniel Morton, George Jackson and Tom Sexton ride New Zealand to a bronze medal.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see the boys finish it off and bring home a Bronze medal after so much misfortune getting to the line was rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier, New Zealand team chef de mission, Nigel Avery, expressed the team\u2019s sympathy for Kergozou.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know this is a hugely disappointing outcome for Nick after all his hard work in getting to the Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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\u2019s ready.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kergozou was to compete at his third Commonwealth Games and wrote alongside the vision on social media that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[192,16717,8344,51038,29422,23676,6489,42,28750,43,69,154770,312,1238,2022,6173,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-552511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-are","tag-becoming","tag-common","tag-commonwealth","tag-crashes","tag-cyclist","tag-games","tag-headlines","tag-hospitalised","tag-news","tag-nz","tag-reporters","tag-says","tag-serious","tag-sport","tag-too","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552511","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=552511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}