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New Zealand cyclist Eddie Dawkins can assure others that security forces in New Delhi are on high alert. The sprinter was doing a few training laps at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex when he ran over a cricket. With his speed hovering on 70km/h and upwards of 240psi of pressure in the tube, the cricket was more than enough to disturb the equilibrium. "Fortunately I didn't come off. It was probably the training I did doing skids as a kid that helped," Dawkins joked. The next part had the potential to be not quite so amusing. "All these soldiers came running into the middle of the velodrome because it sounded like a gunshot," NZ Herald quoted him, as saying. The 21-year-old is part of a track team that is expected to be New Zealand's most prolific medallists at these Games. Where once Dawkins was the sprint team, he is now joined by a group of young riders including Simon van Velthooven, Ethan Mitchell and Sam Webster.