Track bike: splinters through thigh: German cycling talent injured

He was then taken straight to the hospital and underwent surgery two hours after the accident. He said everything went smoothly and he was back home. The incident in the Madison discipline, in which two professionals form a team, occurred on Sunday.

Mauss: “I was really lucky”

“I was really lucky because the shrapnel missed my nerves and most of my leg muscles,” he wrote. It could have been much worse. “Just a few centimeters could have been a career-ending injury,” he added.

Mauss has often been successful on the track; he won silver twice at the World Championships in Apeldoorn last year. The Düsseldorfer also gets involved in street racing. Last year he came ninth in the junior road race at the World Cycling Championships in Rwanda. This year the young rider took third place at the “Istrian Spring Tour” in Croatia.