RIP Gino Mäder (1997 - 2023)

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Rackham

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I have to say this one has f*cked me up pretty badly. As the day goes on it's feeling worse & worse.

I was hesitant to post anything here because it can seem like just pointless platitudes but honestly I have some pretty wild emotions about this right now.

I think the best way to describe this is it almost feels... personal. I don't want to sound like a sh*t but there's a whole bunch of riders in the pro peloton whose names I do not know & had they died, I'd have been sad of course (especially as I was watching the race at the time) but it might not have had the impact this one has had.

Anyone who has been a regular viewer of pro cycling races over the past few years knows Gino Mäder. Whichever race he's in, he's often in the breakaways, often fighting for stage wins & always animating the race at the front. This includes his stage wins in the Giro & Tour de Suisse 2021, his best young rider jersey in the 2021 Vuelta (he was part of the final podium ceremony) & of course that now infamous & epic Paris-Nice stage where Roglič pipped him to the line. I cheered hard that day (as a Rog fan) & that's when I first got to know Mäder as a pro cyclist. He was brave, tenacious & never let go.

By the sound of it he was a really cool, smart guy as well. So what can we say? Chapeau Gino Mäder for doing the hardest sport in the world & giving us great entertainment whilst pushing yourself to the limit. What happened was beyond cruel & makes me feel sick considering how random it seems (like there's a sh*t load of crashes all the time & this was the fatal one).

RIP.
 
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Shocked, sad and angry, that's basically what I felt when hearing the news. Shocked because I hoped that Gino had only an injury. Yes, bad perhaps but recoverable. Sad because such a nice person and promising cyclist lost his life. Angry because the sport I love so much is the reason why we lost him.

RIP Gino
 
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Rackham said:
I have to say this one has f*cked me up pretty badly. As the day goes on it's feeling worse & worse.

I was hesitant to post anything here because it can seem like just pointless platitudes but honestly I have some pretty wild emotions about this right now.

I think the best way to describe this is it almost feels... personal. I don't want to sound like a sh*t but there's a whole bunch of riders in the pro peloton whose names I do not know & had they died, I'd have been sad of course (especially as I was watching the race at the time) but it might not have had the impact this one has had.

Anyone who has been a regular viewer of pro cycling races over the past few years knows Gino Mäder. Whichever race he's in, he's often in the breakaways, often fighting for stage wins & always animating the race at the front. This includes his stage wins in the Giro & Tour de Suisse 2021, his best young rider jersey in the 2021 Vuelta (he was part of the final podium ceremony) & of course that now infamous & epic Paris-Nice stage where Roglič pipped him to the line. I cheered hard that day (as a Rog fan) & that's when I first got to know Mäder as a pro cyclist. He was brave, tenacious & never let go.

By the sound of it he was a really cool, smart guy as well. So what can we say? Chapeau Gino Mäder for doing the hardest sport in the world & giving us great entertainment whilst pushing yourself to the limit. What happened was beyond cruel & makes me feel sick considering how random it seems (like there's a sh*t load of crashes all the time & this was the fatal one).

RIP.
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Lovely post. Puts into words what i've been feeling. I'd never heard of Wouter or Bjorn, but I was still really upset when they passed away. I've been watching a lot of cycling over the recent years & as you say, we heard a lot about Gino. It feels like we've lost a friend.
 
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Rackham said:
I have to say this one has f*cked me up pretty badly. As the day goes on it's feeling worse & worse.

I was hesitant to post anything here because it can seem like just pointless platitudes but honestly I have some pretty wild emotions about this right now.

I think the best way to describe this is it almost feels... personal. I don't want to sound like a sh*t but there's a whole bunch of riders in the pro peloton whose names I do not know & had they died, I'd have been sad of course (especially as I was watching the race at the time) but it might not have had the impact this one has had.

Anyone who has been a regular viewer of pro cycling races over the past few years knows Gino Mäder. Whichever race he's in, he's often in the breakaways, often fighting for stage wins & always animating the race at the front. This includes his stage wins in the Giro & Tour de Suisse 2021, his best young rider jersey in the 2021 Vuelta (he was part of the final podium ceremony) & of course that now infamous & epic Paris-Nice stage where Roglič pipped him to the line. I cheered hard that day (as a Rog fan) & that's when I first got to know Mäder as a pro cyclist. He was brave, tenacious & never let go.

By the sound of it he was a really cool, smart guy as well. So what can we say? Chapeau Gino Mäder for doing the hardest sport in the world & giving us great entertainment whilst pushing yourself to the limit. What happened was beyond cruel & makes me feel sick considering how random it seems (like there's a sh*t load of crashes all the time & this was the fatal one).

RIP.
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Ya, I'm the same. Felt a bit deflated when I saw the news and just felt worse as the day went on (especially after watching the stage).

It's kind of the first major one for me really. I remember Weylandt, Demoitie and Lambrecht's deaths but I was a lot less interested in cycling during Weylandts time and the latter two weren't as prevalent in the peleton as Mader. Even Scarponi was in a training ride so didn't feel as bad as an in race crash.
 
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Ya, I'm the same. Felt a bit deflated when I saw the news and just felt worse as the day went on (especially after watching the stage).

It's kind of the first major one for me really. I remember Weylandt, Demoitie and Lambrecht's deaths but I was a lot less interested in cycling during Weylandts time and the latter two weren't as prevalent in the peleton as Mader. Even Scarponi was in a training ride so didn't feel as bad as an in race crash.
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Rebellin was terrible, literally road a million kms in races and died a few weeks after retirement. They all seem so unfair.
 
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Ya, I'm the same. Felt a bit deflated when I saw the news and just felt worse as the day went on (especially after watching the stage).

It's kind of the first major one for me really. I remember Weylandt, Demoitie and Lambrecht's deaths but I was a lot less interested in cycling during Weylandts time and the latter two weren't as prevalent in the peleton as Mader. Even Scarponi was in a training ride so didn't feel as bad as an in race crash.
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To me Scarponi felt a worse, but that's for personal reasons. I was standing less than 2m away from him at the start of a stage 3 days earlier and then his last pic on social media playing with his little boys, that was brutal.
Couldn't be bothered to watch LBL one day later.
 
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I still don't know what to say. Of course I didn't know him personally, I wasn't even a real fan of his and didn't know much about him apart from his sportive results and his commitment for nature. But he was a rider who was a common name and sight in the peloton. I had simply gotten used to him. And then he dies at such a young age, crashes during a race I have been watching - we were lucky enough to not see the accident, but yes, this feels personal as if I knew him.
And now I am reading more about him and he sounds like such a nice person, everything I get to know, like about his mother, it hurts more and more.
I wish him peace. And I wish strength and care to the people who loved him.
 
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To me Scarponi felt a worse, but that's for personal reasons. I was standing less than 2m away from him at the start of a stage 3 days earlier and then his last pic on social media playing with his little boys, that was brutal.
Couldn't be bothered to watch LBL one day later.
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I think for me, cos it was a training incident and I just woke up to see the news, it didn't hit as hard.

With Mader, I was watching the stage and then checking here and Twitter all last night and this morning hoping for good news.
 
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I paid attention to the 2018 Tour de l'Avenir in roder to see what this young super talent Tadej Pogačar was capable of, but while he did ultimately win the race, he didn't really set the world on fire on that occasion. Instead it was Gino Mäder who left the biggest mark on me through aggressive riding, that led him to two stage wins and 3rd place overall.

One moment can end your life, but other moments can make people remember you for the rest of theirs. RIP, Gino.

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titan31 said:
Ya, I'm the same. Felt a bit deflated when I saw the news and just felt worse as the day went on (especially after watching the stage).

It's kind of the first major one for me really. I remember Weylandt, Demoitie and Lambrecht's deaths but I was a lot less interested in cycling during Weylandts time and the latter two weren't as prevalent in the peleton as Mader. Even Scarponi was in a training ride so didn't feel as bad as an in race crash.
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Was a big fan of Bjorg and it really affected me to the extent that I was crying at work the next day.

Thank you Gino for the happiness you brought us.
 
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