The rider's tribute ride to a colleague and friend: Giro d'Italia Stage 4

[Susan Westemeyer]

Interesting. Not sure this is what Weylandt would want...

Isn't it more important now to consider what these eight individuals want? They are the ones who would face the physical and especially the emotional strain of the coming days.

Susan

 

[CyclingPeet]

I agree with so many of you

Such a moving tribute. I am so glad that Tyler rode with Leopard .... his pure emotion was heartbreaking to watch.

I think the comentators at British Eurosport did so very very well.

I am glad to have this forum to express this too. I couldnt be on last night ... but am crying just reading this thread this morning

RIP Wouter

My English is not so well, but I completely agree, it was very emotion and hertbreaking
Rest in Peace Wouter, ciao

 

[Christomir]

"Wouter Weylandt 'died instantly and did not suffer.The coroner Armando Mannucci said after autopsy on the body of Belgian cyclist who died yesterday at the third stage of the Tour of Italy in Rapallo. According to the medicolegal investigation, the lesions found on the corpse are compatible with the reconstruction the accident taken by traffic police.

According to the doctor, fatal to the rider and Belgian Wouter Weylandt 'was the projection of the body on the asphalt, which resulted in a cranial trauma face death, with injuries to the skull base, deep visceral lesions in addition to a broken leg and injuries to the pelvis."

Does that mean he crushed his face and broke his neck at the same time?

Poor Wouter, how terrible unlucky you have to be for that to happen, when you hit the road surface... Yet he did at least die instantly and felt no pain...

RIP

 

[ruswilks]

Does that mean he crushed his face and broke his neck at the same time?

Poor Wouter, how terrible unlucky you have to be for that to happen, when you hit the road surface... Yet he did at least die instantly and felt no pain...

RIP

I'm not a doctor (but had to do a bit of anatomy as an automotive engineering student looking at car crash injuries) so apologies if this isn't quite correct; breaking the base of the skull is a possibility in severe car crashes, it's to do with the way the loads are distributed in the skull on impact. The occipital bone of the skull starts at the back of your head then curves under as a 'shelf' of the brain, and forms the joint of the first vertebrae. I guess this is what is referred to in the autopsy.

 

[Benotti69]

Isn't it more important now to consider what these eight individuals want? They are the ones who would face the physical and especially the emotional strain of the coming days.

Susan

I agree.

I imagine Wouter would be in the same boat if it was another rider from his team and not him. There may be a few reasons not to continue, a wish to attend his funeral, a wish to be with their own family, they dont have the mentality to continue, as in a GT you need to be in the right frame of mind, they need the time and space to grieve.

It will be hard for them over the next few days and weeks but i am sure they will bounce back with the motivation of doing Wouter's memory proud. Could be a very good TdF and end of season for LT.

 

[Finn84]

I had to look for riders who were present at 2003 Paris-Nice and are also here. I found 11 riders in total:

David Arroyo
Lars Bak
Volodimir Gustov
Danilo Hondo
Yuri Krivstov
Sebastian Lang
Robbie McEwen
Alessandro Petacchi
Jerome Pineau
Carlos Sastre
Matthew Wilson

I am aware of other deaths during cycling races both during races (like Weylandt and Kivilev) and also other cases (like Nolf). It's always heartbreaking to see colleague dying but to have it happened multiple times is even more so. But then of course there are hundreds, even thousands of cyclists who are not in Giro but elsewhere.

 

[thrawn]

Just watched a replay on youtube. Very touching.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

does anyone have a vid of the podium ceremony where they play the last post ? Would like to see that

 

[thirteen]

does anyone have a vid of the podium ceremony where they play the last post ? Would like to see that

it's small, but... http://www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raisp...tem-d773d379-c45f-4914-a29c-6f3482ff460a.html

click on Processo alla tappa -- 4 tappa if it doesn't take you directly there (you'll have to sit through the intro)... oh, and don't forget the kleenex

 

[Spare Tyre]

I can't begin to imagine how difficult yesterday must have been for some members of the peloton. Watching on the far side of the world I found the mourning procession to be surprisingly poignant and, somehow, a rite of transition. Something about the familiar made unfamiliar, the muted respect and appreciation from the tifosi, kilometre after kilometre of quiet, ordered rolling through nature and simply the passing of time combined to leave me feeling the peloton had, by its end, moved into a different world, one which had begun the long process of bidding goodbye to Wouter Weylandt.

I found comfort in it and I hope that the peloton managed to do so too, even if alongside the wrenching pain some of them were obviously feeling.

To those who feel his loss most I wish:

Deep peace of the running waves to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you.

(Celtic poem)

 

[auscyclefan94]

The highlights package I watched in Australia kept on talking about the doom and gloom about the sport. I agree that Cycling can be dangerous but these guys aren't jumping into a cave. These types of incidences don't happen very often at all in races. We need to remind people of that who don't know much about cycling

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I had to look for riders who were present at 2003 Paris-Nice and are also here. I found 11 riders in total:

David Arroyo
Lars Bak
Volodimir Gustov
Danilo Hondo
Yuri Krivstov
Sebastian Lang
Robbie McEwen
Alessandro Petacchi
Jerome Pineau
Carlos Sastre
Matthew Wilson

I am aware of other deaths during cycling races both during races (like Weylandt and Kivilev) and also other cases (like Nolf). It's always heartbreaking to see colleague dying but to have it happened multiple times is even more so. But then of course there are hundreds, even thousands of cyclists who are not in Giro but elsewhere.

It's worth drawing attention to Bruno Pires, as well as these 11. Bruno was riding in the 2008 Clasica Amarante when his teammate Bruno Neves suffered a heart attack and crashed to his death, and of course was racing at this Giro for Leopard Trek.

 

[Benotti69]

108 T-shirt lets you pay tribute to Wouter Weylandt

108 T-shirt lets you pay tribute to Wouter Weylandt while helping his family

buy here

http://stomachofanger.com/108.shtml

http://road.cc/content/news/35761-1...bute-wouter-weylandt-while-helping-his-family

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

108 T-shirt lets you pay tribute to Wouter Weylandt while helping his family

buy here

http://stomachofanger.com/108.shtml

http://road.cc/content/news/35761-1...bute-wouter-weylandt-while-helping-his-family

that is nice, I shall buy one.