Exterior of Mountbatten leisure centre Portsmouth.
A six-day inquest into the death of cyclist Richard Phillips-Schofield at the Mountbatten Centre track, Portsmouth, on March 11 2014 has heard that he was positioning himself for a sprint just before he crashed.
Police officer Phillips-Schofield suffered severe head and chest injuries as a result of the crash and died in the Queen Alexandra Hospital two days later.
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