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Man rescued on Rotorua mountain bike track taken to Middlemore Hospital

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A man was rescued from a Rotorua mountain bike track and flown to Middlemore Hospital yesterday.

A police spokesman said theman was halfway down a steep mountain bike track off Tarawera Rd, towards Lake Tikitapu.

A spokeswoman for St John said they took the seriously injured man to Rotorua Hospital but a Lakes District Healthboard spokeswoman said he had since been transferred to Middlemore Hospital.

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