Kiwi mountainbike world champ breaks neck, back in horror high-speed crash | Stuff.co.nz

Kiwi mountain bike world champ Erice van Leuven has suffered horrendous injuries after flying off her bike at 70km/h during a massive jump in the Red Bull Hardline, aka the “world’s gnarliest race”.⁠ ⁠ Van Leuven’s crash in Tasmania left her with a broken back, neck and wrist, a lacerated liver and a punctured lung.⁠ ⁠ “It was pretty scary... a lot of fun until it wasn’t,” van Leuven told Paddy Gower from her hospital bed. “I just came a bit short on the 85-foot [26-metre] jump. | Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2JPg8oB Read more: For full coverage visit www.Stuff.co.nz Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/2JPg8oB ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stuff is New Zealand's largest and most popular news site. With more than 500 journalists spread from Northland to Southland, we cover breaking news, politics, business, sport, crime, the environment, health, education, home and property, food, lifestyle, entertainment, weather, travel, technology, motoring, farming and much more. As well as covering the stories of the day, we specialise in investigative journalism, opinion and analysis, and long-form writing and visual storytelling. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social media channels: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nzstuff Twitter: https://twitter.com/NZStuff