Accidents
Paris-Roubaix race director Thierry Gouvenou has named increased speed as one reason for a growing number of crashes at major cycling races. "Stop, stop, stop, let us end the massacre. Let's start to think about the speed problems," Gouvenou told sports paper L'Equipe ahead of Sunday's edition of his race. "We've made enormous progress in aerodynamics and braking. We're going far too fast." Gouvenou spoke after a heavy crash in the Itzulia Basque Country stage race where Tour France champion Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel were among casualties in a mass crash on Thursday and suffered fra...
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The head of the Altenberg sliding track has dismissed suggestions after two heavy bobsleigh training crashes that the venue was too dangerous as he rather pointed at the sport itself in what he named a global problem. The Swiss four man bob of Michael Vogt and the German sled of pilot Johannes Lochner crashed during training on Tuesday on the demanding German course. Several athletes were injured, with Swiss Sandro Michel in hospital in a stable conditions after chest, hip and thigh surgery. Altenberg boss Jens Morgenstern said on Thursday that "I will not accept the fact that Altenberg is now...
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Swiss bobsledder Sandro Michel was in a stable condition in hospital on Wednesday after a heavy training crash on the German sliding track of Altenburg the previous day. Michel was part of Michael Vogt's four-man team and fell out of the bob when the bob tipped over. He was then run over by the sled which slid back from the finish area. The world governing body IBSF said that Michel was flown to hospital in Dresden and underwent surgery on chest, hip and thigh injuries. The Swiss team said that Vogt suffered severe concussion and bruises, and the two other team members, Dominik Hufschmid and A...
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The number of fatalities from unprovoked shark attacks worldwide in 2023 were up to 10, nearly double the previous five years' average, according to the International Shark Attack File (ISAF) kept by the University of Florida. In data released on Monday, the ISAF researchers confirmed 14 shark-related fatalities, including 10 categorized as unprovoked. The figure is near double the average of six unprovoked fatalities per year in 2018-22. The ISAF report said there had been 69 unprovoked shark bites on humans and 22 provoked bites. The figure is in line with the average of 63 attacks a year in...
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