On the morning of last Sunday, January 28, a 51-year-old cyclist died in Floridablanca, Santanderwhile taking a bicycle tour with a group of athletes.
(Also: Promise of the sport died from an infection detected 24 hours earlier).
According to several testimonies given to local media, the amateur athlete known as Ludwin Cárdenas Granados was ascending his bicycle towards the Santísimo hill.
Everything was going well, until suddenly a pain in his chest made him stop.
After this, witnesses say that the man screamed and then fell to the ground.
Quickly, those accompanying him took his pulse and, not feeling it, tried to perform rescue maneuvers. cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
(Read here: Video | A young cycling promise is robbed in Bogotá: they took his expensive bicycle).
A possible heart attack
The events occurred around 7:24 am that day. The Bucaramanga Metropolitan Police said, according to the media The vanguardthat “the deceased was riding his bicycle doing sports, suddenly screams and falls to the ground, being helped, since apparently he suffered a heart attack from which he lost his life.”
On the other hand, It is known that an ambulance arrived at the scene several minutes after the incident occurred. ANDThis is due to the recording of a video published on social networks, in which a woman complains that medical help would have taken almost half an hour to arrive.
Paramedics assured that the man had no vital signs.
It should be noted that Juan Carlos González, a graduate in physical education and a specialist in cycling and athletics training, stated in conversation with EL TIEMPO that “the statistics of sudden deaths in athletes do not show a consolidated global source, but there are serious studies that become in reliable references.”
González added that “in terms of numbers, in the United States, the death of athletes from high school It is close to the average of one person per 200,000 practitioners, while the figures from Spanish entities such as the Mutual General Deportiva and the Federation of Sports Medicine give us 0.26 per 100,000 inhabitants,” he noted.
González assures that the deaths generated due to cardiovascular risk factors exceed those generated by one thousand percent, not by sport itself, but in the sporting field.
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