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Fleche du Sud crash (picture - Team RaceClean on Twitter).jpgFleche du Sud stage cancelled after crash leaves rider in coma
Today’s Stage 3 of the UCI Europe Tour race the Fleche du Sud in Luxembourg has been cancelled after a serious crash involving a number of riders, one of whom is reported to be in a coma.
According to Wort.lu, the crash happened on a descent 9 kilometres into the 152.1 kilometre stage from Redange to Warken with a number of riders crashing into a wall.
Several ambulances as well as an Air Rescue helicopter attended the scene. According to a tweet from 5 Minutes Lux, 14 riders were injured.
Flèche du sud : chute de masse, 14 cyclistes blessés. La 3e étape est annulée #Luxembourg https://t.co/pLkftY8nJ7 pic.twitter.com/hNixur7ijX
— 5minutes (@5MinutesLux) 6 May 2016
Police escorted the riders not involved in the crash back to the start after organisers decided to cancel the stage.
Team RaceClean tweeted this picture of the scene.
We are hearing the police have dictated that Stage 3 of #flechedusud is cancelled. pic.twitter.com/us741cXySU
— Team RaceClean (@TeamRaceClean) May 6, 2016
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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