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Boxing, men’s 91kg final: David Nyika (NZ) v Jason Whateley (Australia), 3.32pm today (NZT). here to box, it’s going to get better’.

‘‘The results came back that night that I’d completely torn it, but luckily I hadn’t done too much damage to the ligaments around it.’’

The 30-year-old said she was gutted she couldn’t walk in the opening ceremony but didn’t tell anyone why.

‘‘So friends were saying ‘ We tried to see you!’ I even put up a photo of me at least in my Number Ones, so that it felt half like I was a part of it.

‘‘But that was the stuff I was prepared to sacrifice so that I could get my knee to the best I could.’’

Garton was was able to move better in her quarterfinal win, but with just one day’s rest before her semi, the injury hampered her against Stridsman.

‘‘It prevented me from being able to be explosive on it and get on angles.

‘‘I just had to stand there in front of her punches,’’ she said while fighting back tears.

‘‘I think it’s hard to get past that mentally as well.’’

Gaze accused fellow Kiwi Anton Cooper of poor sportsmanship, seemingly angry that Cooper attacked after Gaze was forced to pit for a rear-wheel puncture repair with a little more than a lap to race.

Cooper, who finished second after Gaze scrapped his way past him late on the final lap, felt there was nothing wrong with his actions.

Craig, who has competed against Gaze and Cooper multiple times, agreed, saying there was no such etiquette in mountain biking.

‘‘Put it this way. Even if it was my own brother who got a flat tyre, I wouldn’t stop and wait for him,’’ Craig said of brother Ben, who finished 65 seconds behind Gaze in the enthralling race.

‘‘If Anton stopped, then the South African [Alan Hatherly] would have just kept going and then what happens?

The South African wins and we get second and third. It’s just weird.

‘‘I know there’s maybe some etiquette in road cycling and you’re the leader of a race then they might stop for you, but in a mountain bike race it’s part of the sport.

‘‘If you get a flat tyre, that could be because you took a wrong line, or hit a rock the wrong way, or took a risk in a corner.’’

In road cycling races, the unwritten rule is that you don’t attack when the yellow jersey holder (tour leader) has crashed or had a mechanical problem.

Kiwi cyclist George Bennett weighed in on the subject on social media, suggesting he hasn’t even seen the aforementioned etiquette on the road.

"I never wait, no one waits for me,’’ Bennett signed his message off with.

Gaze’s post-match comments, which caused a stir on both sides of the Tasman and caused some to say the race had been tarnished, resulted in the gold medallist apologising.