Sharon Laws will have an operation either tomorrow or on Monday morning to repair a small crack in her fibula, a bone in the lower leg, following her crash in training earlier this week.
Laws, who had been pencilled in to ride as part of Great Britain's three-strong team for the women's road race at the Olympic Games in Beijing in August, fell when she hit a pothole while training near Abergavenny on Wednesday. Team-mate Emma Trott also went down but suffered only bruising.
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