Professional Cyclists

[alt obits guy 3,088]

Juan Pujalte, a member of the Valverde team, has died. He was 18. Pujalte's death was confirmed by the Cycling Federation of the Region of Murcia, in Spain.

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/cycling/breaking-juan-pujalte-death-accident-32241057

[diego 1,805]

Natalya Melyokhina was born in Chelyabinsk, she died aged 61, She became world champion in the women's team time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in 1987 and finished second in 1990. In 1990 she also won stage 5 of the Tour Cycliste Féminin de la Drôme and finished second in the general classification.

https://www.championat.com/other/news-5492558-chempionka-mira-po-velosportu-na-shosse-natalya-melyohina-umerla-v-vozraste-61-goda.html

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,447]

Horrible looking crash in the Basque Tour that’s taken out three of the pre TDF favourites, Vingegaard, Roglic and Evenepoel. Hopefully no one is too badly hurt, they all seem conscious at least.

[maryportfuncity 9,979]

16 hours ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

Horrible looking crash in the Basque Tour that’s taken out three of the pre TDF favourites, Vingegaard, Roglic and Evenepoel. Hopefully no one is too badly hurt, they all seem conscious at least.

 

Aye, age restricted on YouTube, a few broken bones but everyone's going to okay eventually

 

 

 

[DevonDeathTrip 2,288]

Impressive how Remco Evenepoel, with less than a second's thinking time, managed to bunny hop over that ditch at around 40 mph before coming to grief.

[diego 1,805]

Alexei Tsatevich was born in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast, RSFS of Russia and died aged 34, last racing for the UCI Professional Continental Gazprom – RusVelo team, Tsatevich achieved the first victory of his professional career in February 2013, when he won the Le Samyn race with category 1.1, in Belgium

https://lhl96.ru/news/2729/2024-04-08/skorbim/

[drol 10,022]

On 14/10/2019 at 13:06, JQW said:

Eddy Merckx in hospital after suffering a 'serious head injury' whilst riding with friends.

 

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/eddy-merckx-in-hospital-with-serious-head-injury-after-crash/

Eddy Merckx received emergency surgery due to volvulus, but was never in danger of life and has been already discharged.