South African top biker killed in road accident

 JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Burry Stander, a two-time mountain bike Olympian, was killed in a road accident while training near his home on Thursday.

The 25-year-old South African died after colliding¹ with a taxi in the Kwazulu-Natal province on South Africa's east coast, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee² said.

Stander finished fifth in last year's London Olympics and he competed in Beijing 2008. He was also a former under-19 and under-23 world champion and South Africa's biggest star in the sport and one of the world's top riders³.

1 colliding   

v.相撞( collide的现在分词 )；碰撞；冲突；抵触

参考例句：

• The whole gas which is colliding with the oscillator cools off. 与振动子碰撞的整个气体将逐渐冷却。 来自辞典例句
• The molecules bounce off each other like two colliding billiard balls. 当分子相互弹开时就象两个碰撞的弹球。 来自辞典例句

2 committee   

n.委员会，全体委员

参考例句：

• We referred the matter back to the Finance Committee.我们把这事转回给财政委员会处理。
• I am going to speak out against the committee's decision.我打算直言反对委员会的决定。

3 riders   

骑（马、自行车等）的人( rider的名词复数 )； 乘客； 附文； 附加条款

参考例句：

• a group of riders strung out along the beach 沿海滩散开的一队骑手
• The riders came trotting down the lane. 这骑手骑着马在小路上慢跑。