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Teen sprinting ace Edward Osei-Nketia has suffered a setback in preparation for the new athletic season.
Olympic sprint wannabe Eddie Osei-Nketia has suffered a setback, apparently breaking his arm after falling off his bike.
The 19-year-old rising star, who won the national 100-200m double in March, will likely be out of the game for six weeks, his coach Gary Henley-Smith told the New Zealand Herald.
Henley-Smith, the boarding director at Scots College in Wellington where Osei-Nketia studies, said the sprinter nicknamed “Fast Eddie” got off his bike near the university on Friday night.
“I’m not happy. It was unnecessary, it happened in the dark, which is the problem,” Henley-Smith told the New Zealand Herald.
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“This is a good lesson and several people are now talking to him about taking responsibility. Now he is a big boy.
“He’s pretty sad. He says he went over the handlebars, that’s his story.”
Osei-Nketia reportedly suffered a radius fracture near his right elbow and is awaiting further medical reports.
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Edward Osei-Nketia defeats Hamish Gill, right, in the men’s 200m final at the Christchurch Nationals in March.
In July, Things reported that New Zealand’s fastest men had joined forces in Wellington in a “make or break” move that Joseph Millar hoped would see them both qualify for the Tokyo Olympics next year.
The Commonwealth Games representative traveled to the capital to train alongside Osei-Nketia and work as a supervisor at Scots College boarding school.
Millar and Osei-Nketia rank third and fourth on Athletics New Zealand’s all-time ranking list for the 100 meters, their personal best marks separated by just 0.01 seconds. Millar is also the national 200 meter champion.
“When I realized there was an opportunity to move in and live and train with Eddie and Gary and get really high performance, I thought there was no better option in New Zealand to drink and I jumped on it,” Millar said at the time. .
