The Cycling World Cups that end this Sunday were tinged with mourning after the death of the 18-year-old Swiss runner Muriel Furrerdied after a fall the day before during the junior race, in conditions that remain unclear.
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“With deep sadness the International Cycling Union (UCI) and the organizing committee of the Zurich World Cup today received the news of the tragic death of the young Swiss cyclist Muriel Furrer,” the entity said at the time.
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On Friday, the UCI reported the unfortunate news: “Unfortunately, Muriel Furrer passed away today in the University Hospital Zurich”.
It is not very clear what happened and the investigations have not given a reason for how the accident occurred, but some information was revealed that leaves big questions in the air.
The first results of the investigation showed incredible data, as the official statement says.
«According to the first investigations, the cyclist fell close toe Küsnachtin a slight curve to the left, while descending from the village of Schmalzgrueb. “Currently there are no indications of cause from third parties,” it was noted.
“No witness noticed the fall. At the moment there are no television images or other recordings of what happened,” he said.
“The latest information suggests that the under-19 race continued in the pouring rain, while Furrer probably lay seriously injured in the undergrowth, hidden from view of the motorcycles and support cars which they passed again in the second round of the test,” reported Spain’s Antena 3.
!Investigations so far show that a member of race security found the athlete fallen unconscious outside the track in the woods. Rescuers immediately arrived at the scene of the accident and provided first aid. The exact time of the accident has not yet been completely clarified,” said www.tuttobiciweb.it.
“I don’t know how the accident happened, or the exact place. We know where they found Muriel, but we don’t know exactly what the accident scene looks like. What everyone knows and is true: the accident occurred on the way down from the forest on the outskirts of Küsnacht,” said Olivier Senn, sports director of the Cycling World Championship.
“It is confirmed that at the end of the first lap the GPS detection system did not detect the passage of two athletes between them Muriel (which is naturally possible, given that sometimes one is forced to change bikes due to a mechanical accident) and that only at the end of the race, when the girl did not reach the finish line, did the searches begin,” says the specialized cycling page in Italy.
And sentence: “As soon as she was spotted off the road, rescue efforts were quick and effective, but in the meantime more than an hour had passed since the fall.”
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