The cycling world is mourning the death of Gino Mader this Friday. The Swiss cyclist from the Bahrain-Victorious team suffered a serious fall at kilometer 197 of the fifth stage of the Tour of Switzerland, and the injuries caused resulted in his life.
“Despite the efforts of the phenomenal team at the Chur hospital, where he was transferred on Thursday after being revived, the climber “he didn’t get past his last big challenge and at 11.30am we had to say goodbye to one of our team’s bright lights“, Bahrain-Victorious wrote in a statement.
During one of the descents, Mader fell over a cliff, lost consciousness and had to be revived on the spot.then he was transferred by helicopter to the hospital in Chur.
The runner is unconscious in the water and, after the initial attention, was later taken by helicopter to Chur hospital, where he finally died on Friday.
Upon hearing the news of his accident, other peloton squads wanted to send their best wishes to the runner.. This is the case of the Movistar Team, who tweeted “Fuerza Gino”, of Israel-Premie Tech, who wrote on the same social network that “We send all our support and best wishes to Gino and his team” or of INEOS Grenadiers, where Sheffield runs. , which posted “We are with you, Sir.”
The news also resonated and he was remembered by runners such as French Lilian Calmejane, Spanish Juan Ayuso, who won the stage, and Remco Evenepoelis the main favorite for the general conquest and is currently ranked fourth here.
The Belgian rider was critical of the stage layout: “I wish everyone involved in today’s crash well. I hope that the end of today’s episode will make the organizers of the exams think and ourselves as runners.”
“A high finish could have been perfectly possible, it was not a good decision to make us finish after a dangerous descent. As cyclists, we must think about the risks we take when going down the mountains,” he added in this regard.
Source: La Verdad
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