Cyclist's death stuns Giro d'Italia Whatever the outcome of the Giro d'Italia, be it victory for Alberto Contador or anything else, the race will be remembered for an incident that has convulsed professional cycling: the death of the 26-year-old Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt. He crashed heavily on the descent from Monday's main climb, Passo del Bocco, lost a large volume of blood and never regained consciousness.
As with coal miners and fishermen, life on the professional cycling circuit is one of shared and mutually appreciated danger. Not all the peloton can have known Weylandt but they will ride out on Tuesday for stage four along the Tuscan coast to Livorno in the knowledge that what happened to him could have happened to any one of their number. The risks he took were routine, taken by a rider who was very much one of the pack.
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