Shock for team Bora-hansgrohe: professional cyclists after car accident in hospital

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Shock for team Bora-hansgrohe
Professional cyclists after car accident in hospital

The German professional cycling team Bora-hansgrohe suffers a shock: During a training trip, several drivers collide with a car, three professionals have to be hospitalized, but are probably conscious. Two 2020 accident victims are about to make a comeback.

Scary moment in the training camp: Several riders from the German professional cycling team Bora-hansgrohe were involved in a car accident while driving. As the racing team announced via Twitter, Rüdiger Selig (Zwenkau), Andreas Schillinger (Kümmersbruck) and the Dutchman Wilco Kelderman were brought to the hospital, all three were conscious.

"Wilco and Rudi have suffered a concussion while Andreas is waiting for a final examination," said the team. How long the professionals will have to stay in the hospital is still unclear. Bora-hansgrohe has not yet provided any information on the ultimate severity of the injuries. There was also initially no further information on the course of the accident. The team recently went to a training camp on Lake Garda in Italy.

Trade media reported that a total of seven Bora drivers had been hit. The Bora professionals who were able to return to the hotel are Maximilian Schachmann, Marcus Burghardt, Anton Palzer, and Michael Schwarzmann, "cyclingnews.com" reported. The quartet largely got away with the horror.

Accident victim from 2020 before comeback

The professional cyclists Remco Evenepoel and Fabio Jakobsen from the Deceuninck-Quick Step team recently announced that they were planning to return after their horror falls in 2020. While the 24-year-old Jakobsen will probably have to wait longer, Evenepoel could start team training again in February. The Belgian fell almost ten meters from a bridge on the Lombardy tour in August and suffered a broken pelvis, among other things. Jakobsen got it worse when he fell on the Tour of Poland at the beginning of August: In the final sprint of the first stage, he was pushed into the safety gate by his compatriot Dylan Groenewegen at a speed of over 80 km / h and suffered life-threatening injuries.

The Bora-hansgrohe team last looked good when professional cyclist Emanuel Buchmann announced that he would not compete in the upcoming Tour de France and instead concentrate on the Giro d'Italia. "The tour route is not made for me this year with the time trials and the few mountain finishes. The team and I have decided that the Giro has a greater chance of making it onto the podium and up front," said Buchmann, who is at fourth on the 2019 Tour, but was far behind on the 2020 Tour after a fall shortly before.