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Injury may see Shah Firdaus miss out on collecting additional Olympic points | Scoop
Muhammad Shah Firdaus clinched his maiden individual medal in the Hangzhou Asian Games last year. – Facebook pic, January 25, 2024
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Injury may see Shah Firdaus miss out on collecting additional Olympic points

Cyclist suffered an accident while training at the National Velodrome earlier this week

Bernama
Updated
8:36 PM MYT

 

KUALA LUMPUR – National track cyclist Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom may have to skip the 2024 Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Track Nations Cup after suffering injuries following an accident while undergoing training at the National Velodrome in Nilai on Tuesday.

Muhammad Shah Firdaus said he was supposed to leave for Australia on Saturday (January 27) but is still waiting for the coaches to decide whether he will be allowed to compete in the February 2-4 meet in Adelaide.

If forced to skip the Nations Cup, the rider, nicknamed The Terminator Shah, will miss the chance to add more points for the Paris Olympics.

“The initial plan was for me to only compete in the Nations Cup in Australia and Hong Kong in March to ensure I have more points for the Olympics so that I need not have to go to the Nations Cup in Canada in April.

“But if I can’t even make the early events, it will throw a spanner in the works for me. In terms of points for the Olympics, I have already qualified, just need to strengthen my position as the Olympic Qualifiers are still ongoing,” he told Bernama. 

Speaking of the accident he was involved in, the 28-year-old said he was trying to chase after the motorcycle in front of him when the bicycle he was riding had a burst tyre.

He said he injured his left shoulder and left thigh and has a swollen ankle, making it difficult for him to even walk.

“While riding, I heard a noise and when I tried to negotiate a bend, the back tyre burst and I fell. They (the coaches) rushed me to the National Sports Institute (NSI) in an ambulance.

“A scan showed nothing broken. But I am frustrated and concerned that I got injured at a critical time. But what can we do? The NSI doctors told me to just rest. I have been cleaning my wounds daily so that I can get well faster,” said Muhammad Shah Firdaus, who described the accident as being similar to the one that befell Datuk Azizulhasni Awang when he was preparing for the last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games.

The Paris Olympics qualifying period for track cycling began on July 19, 2023 and will end on April 14.

For the record, Muhammad Shah Firdaus clinched silver in men’s keirin at the UCI Track Nations Cup in Cairo, Egypt last March before bagging silver in the same event at the International Belgian Track Meet in Ghent last April.

He also won bronze in the sprint and keirin events at the 2022 Hangzhou Asiad. – January 25, 2024

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