Team GB cyclist involved in ANOTHER crash at the Olympics as Neah Evans suffers blow to gold medal hopes just hours after Ollie Wood was ‘HEADBUTTED’ by Dutch rival

Neah Evans has had her hopes of a gold medal in the women’s omnium dash dashed after falling during the scratch race.

The Team GB star lost control of his bike as he rode between two other riders and finished in last place.

Evans, who already won a silver medal in Paris, will undergo a concussion protocol before the ominium resumes later.

There were fears she had hit her head in the fall, but she was able to get back up, get on her bike and finish the race – albeit last of the 22 competitors.

The winner of the omnium is the one who scores the most points in the first four races. Her crash in the first race has given her a tough challenge to qualify for a medal.

Evans (left) already has a medal from the Paris Games with a silver medal on the women’s team.

On Friday she won a silver medal together with Elinor Barker in the final of the women’s madison.

Evans is the latest Team GB athlete to be involved in a crash, although it is not as controversial as Ollie Wood’s accident on Saturday.

Wood appeared to receive a headbutt from his Dutch rival Jan Willem van Schip.

With only 39 laps to go, Wood suddenly crashed hard after Willem van Schip hit him on the helmet from behind.

It was unclear from television replays whether the contact was intentional, but it certainly looked ugly on the track: Woods was left sprawled on the boards as a result of the collision.

The Dutch team was disqualified and Willem van Schip was fined CHF1,000 (£720) for “inappropriate behaviour and behaviour endangering another cyclist (hitting the helmet)”, the commissioners’ decision read.

After limping into the interview area with a badly swollen knee, he said, “He hit me so hard. I felt like a crash test dummy.

“I will survive. I saw nothing.”

Dutch rider Jan-Willem van Schip (above) appeared to headbutt Ollie Wood on Saturday

With just 39 laps to go, Wood was suddenly catapulted into a hard fall

Britain’s Ollie Woods ends up on the cycling deck after a collision with a Dutch opponent

Wood added: “It’s just a little bit different when you get hit from behind – you don’t see it coming. There’s a lot of people resting and riding at the same time. Instead of taking a high line around the track, I thought he was going to chop it up a bit and just plough into me.

“I haven’t watched it back. I’m trying to catch my breath. I have no idea, absolutely no idea. All I know is that I got hit really hard from behind by literally the biggest rider on the track.

‘Everyone’s cognitive functions started to decline rapidly at some point – you could see people concentrating. When there are people all over the track, it’s inevitable that people will bump wheels or something.

‘I don’t know what I did, but my knee and my butt really hurt.

“I feel like I’ve been hit from behind by a truck.”