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Fabio Van den Bossche via Eurosport.PNGVideo: Rider almost crashes through shop window at World Championships
Here’s a cyclist who might be well advised to invest in a Euromillions ticket this evening with this kind of luck – Belgium’s Fabio Van den Bossche, who almost crashed through a shop window during today’s men’s under-23 road race at the UCI Road Cycling World Championships in Flanders.
The 21 year old veered sharply to the right – possibly after a touch of wheels – and somehow managed to unclip and dismount as his bike went from under him (and almost into a wheel-bender type stand), holding his hands out to brace himself for an impact with the window that thankfully when it happened was a relatively gentle one.
"Thank goodness it only ended up like that!" 😳
That could've been a disastrous crash 🪟💥🚴#Flanders2021 pic.twitter.com/DWNRvdgu77
— Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) September 24, 2021
The incident took place during what has been a crash-strewn start to the 161.1km race from Antwerp to Leuven, with Axel Merckx – presumably dad Eddy is taking the day off from criticising young riders – attributing the falls to a mixture of nervousness and inexperience, according to Sporza.
It’s not the first time Van den Bossche, who is in his second season at the UCI Professional Continental team, Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise, has caught the attention of the TV cameras this year – back in April, he fulfilled one of the dreams that any Belgian kid who’s ever ridden a bike must have, by getting in the break at the Tour of Flanders.
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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- hawkinspeter 3 sec ago
To me that sounds like the following driver caused the crash by not concentrating on what the car ahead was doing. There can be any number of...
- hawkinspeter 3 min 30 sec ago
Seems like only a minority of routes go through Crews Hole Rd from my dragging around the start and stop positions.
- hawkinspeter 11 min 27 sec ago
People called Romanes they go the house?
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Is the headline not misleading. when the stock was purchased at 3 million in the fire sale with estimated 80 million at retail and blown out for...
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No, you're not missing anything. I've just re-read the original article and I clearly just presumed they would hand in their licence…
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That still annoys me about the BBC - iplayer only keeps some programmes available for a short time, so we have to rely on people making copies to...
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The point of limited-run models like these isn't to make a profit. It's a marketing exercise to get the brand in the media via filler articles that...
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Seems like a flaw. I wonder who decided that? Surely it's in everyone's interests to come up with an agreement that a portion of the car-park be...
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Don't forget the hour record!...
- pockstone 3 hours 17 min ago
See my comment on the live blog...I think it's pretty clear who the real baddie is.
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Or maybe he should avoid gambling for the rest of the year as he's used up his quota of good luck.
This U23 race is a crash fest. I saw that bloke live, if he'd managed to park his bike into the bike stand it would have been Youtube gold.
Glad he's ok, obviously, it was a moment.
It was the comment later on about knowing the U23 race is a chance to put yourself in the shop window, but he took it literally.
That is one of the worst races I've seen for small crashes. Also felt sorry for the NZ rider that missed the corner because they let the lead cars go a different direction to miss a narrow climb.