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Monday, 28 March 2016
The Belgian cyclist Antoine DEMOITIÉ dies because he is run over by a heavy fall of an accompanying motorcycle. The cycling world reacts shocked. In the words of sympathy to sharp criticism mixed on safety concept of the World Association.
“Speechless”, “Shock”, “unreal”: The cycling world mourns the death of 25-year-old professionals Antoine DEMOITIÉ. The Belgian succumbed to his injuries resulting from a collision with a motorcycle escort during spring classic Gent-Wevelgem. “The driver died. We have initiated an investigation to clarify the exact circumstances,” said Frederic Evrard, spokesman for the police department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
Demoitiés Belgian team Wanty- Groupe Gobert published on Twitter the driver with his name black and white photo, the homepage was not initially achieved. “Hero to the end,” wrote Gaetan Bille, teammate and one of the best friends of the victim because DEMOITIÉ had saved with a donation nor the lives of three people.
DEMOITIÉ was on Easter Sunday at Gent-Wevelgem after about 150 kilometers with several other riders come to the case – a fact very ordinary racing crash. But a traveling behind the group accompanying motorcycle could not avoid DEMOITIÉ. The head injuries suffered then turned out to be too severe.
New inflamed security debate
The sympathy for the unfortunate DEMOITIÉ was on Easter Monday almost unlimited, the German professional cyclist André Greipel ( “speechless” ), Marcel Kittel ( “feels unreal”), Tony Martin ( “shocked”) and Demoitiés German teammate Björn Thurau ( ‘will never forget our time together “) expressed their mourning. Among these manifestations, however mixed critical voices, which aimed mainly towards the cycling world governing body UCI.
The number of support vehicles during the race has long been a subject of discussion, the UCI and the organizers have so far but apparently no serious made changes to prevent such accidents. At Gent-Wevelgem about obviously overflowed particularly the number of photographers’ motorcycles right out, the stored pictures from the race close.
It had alarms given sufficiently within the past twelve months. By 2015 there were numerous incidents, but they all emanated still reasonably lightly. World champion Peter Sagan was knocked down during last year’s Tour of Spain on a motorcycle, the same thing happened to the Belgian Greg Van Avermaet at the classic in San Sebastian.
“The UCI must do something”
Since the beginning of the warnings continued. The Belgian Stig Broeckx from Greipel team Lotto came in early March at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne to case and broke including the clavicle, the same weekend fared Swiss Danilo Wyss (BMC Racing) in a competition in France similar.
last spring there had also been given in the tour of Flanders incidents involving neutral material cars from the accompanying armada. All this was clearly not enough to tighten security measures. “And now,” wrote the Dane Brian Holm, with Team Quick Step Sports Director of Kittel and Martin, on Twitter -. Addressed to the UCI and its president Brian Cookson
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criticism is primarily not always sufficient qualification of motorcyclists, there is about no uniform licenses to accompany the peloton during the race. Jason Jenkins, an experienced motorcycle pilot, talked about about a month ago with the specialized portal “cyclingtips.com”: “The UCI has to do something, and it does not look as if they would do it.”
on the death Demoitiés the UCI had not reacted until noon the Easter Monday. Jenkins said that currently sufficient one day crash course to get a license for a World Tour race. And he defended the motorcycle pilots, none of whom deliberately provoke an accident. “No one wants that,” Jenkins said, but added admonishing added: “. It is the pitch of racers, each bike is only a guest in this field”
Source: n-tv.de
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