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Coventry Bees blew the play-off battle in the Sky Sports Elite League wide open after a brilliant 46-44 win at Peterborough.

Everyone at Glasgow Speedway extends their best wishes to Adrian Rymel who sustained a nasty and severe injury at Edinburgh last night. The popular Czech Republic rider is reported to have a broken bone in his neck and due an operation at some point on Saturday.

Adrian is one of the most popular visiting riders at Glasgow and we are all crossing our fingers for his safe passage back to full fitness.

It was a horror night on the injury and illness front on Friday at Scunthorpe with riders suffering badly as the team went down to a heavy defeat losing 62-30.

With Josh Grajczonek, Travis McGowan and Joe Screen entering the meeting with injury concenrs, the younger Aussie was the first to bite the bullet as he came on on lap 1 bend 3 of his first race as he clashed with Jan Graversen and was ruled out with a hip injury. Joe Screen by this time was feeling ill in the pits and although he took his next two rides, he was throwing up and had to pull out after that.

Travis was untroubled as far as injury was concerned but had a shocker as he was late on arriving due to the fatal crash on the M18 so missed all opportunity to walk the track at a venue he has never seen before, and then proceeded to have his worst meeting in Glasgow colours as he consigned his engine to the dustbin at its conclusion.

Major credit goes to guest Darren Mallett and especially our own Jake Anderson and Nick Morris, who battled manfully and got stuck in in very difficult circumstances.

As far as the trip to Newport tonight, Chris Neath and Sam Masters will don the race jackets in place of Screen and Grajczonek and Darren Mallett will continue in the number 6 race jacket as James Holder was injured on Thursday at Sheffield.

For tomorrow’s clash with Edinburgh at home, it will be Jason Lyons in for Joe Screen and Marcin Rempala in for Josh. Jade Mudgeway will guest for Lee Dicken.

It is hoped that will a few days rest both Screen and Grajczonek can return for a week on Sunday against Kings Lynn.

MADS Korneliussen says the weight is off his shoulders for tonight’s Elite League Pairs Championship at Ipswich.

RONNIE Russell lavished praise on his depleted Swindon side and Maciej Janowski in particular, after the Robins gave a manful display to secure a terrific 45-45 draw at Lakeside last night.

SWINDON Robins have released details of the remaining fixtures of their Elite League and Knockout Cup campaigns.

WITH Swindon’s underwhelming Elite League campaign winding down, it’s time to celebrate some of the more positive aspects of 2010 as we ask you to vote for your Swindon Advertiser Robins Rider of the Year.

DAVID Hoggart, the man in charge of British Speedway’s high-profile events, says the Premier League Riders’ Championship at Owlerton is the strongest for years.

Edinburgh Scotwaste Monarchs were forced to abandon their Autumn challenge speedway fixture against Berwick Bandits at Armadale last night following a serious injury to visiti

SWINDON Robins travel to Lakeside Hammers in the Elite League tonight minus Simon Stead and Mads Korneliussen and you can follow live updates here.