Trek-Segafredo sports director Steven De Jongh has been found unconscious after police in Spain launched a search for him when he was reported missing during a bike ride from Girona earlier today.
The 44-year-old former pro, who served as sports director at Team Sky from 2010-12, was reported missing by his wife Renée Meijer on Twitter earlier today.
People of twitter help me please. My husband @stevendejongh went on his bike and is missing since 10.30 . Around #laGanga area. If you are there help me please to find him. He went on a Trek bike in a trek suit. Retweet please.
— Renee Meijer (@reneemeijer02) October 15, 2018
She shared details of his ‘morning ride’ posted to Strava, which showed that he stopped moving at around 10.30 this morning around 63 kilometres into his ride, near La Bisbal d’Empordà.
Shortly after 5pm UK time this evening, she tweeted again to say that he had been found by helicopter and was breathing and has a pulse.
Thank you kind people, the helicopter has found @stevendejongh . More news later. He breaths and has a pulse .
— Renee Meijer (@reneemeijer02) October 15, 2018
He is reported to have been taken to hospital.
8 thoughts on “Trek-Segafredo sports director Steven De Jongh found unconscious after going missing during bike ride in Spain”
I hope he is is alright, too
I hope he is is alright, too early to know. But I wonder, how can she use Strava to see him, if he didn’t upload?
Organon wrote:
His ride stopped and uploaded to Strava.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1906026291
Not sure how this happened with a Garmin 1000. Anyone?
It’s not clear if that’s where he was found either, or how the accident happened yet.
Something feels weird about
Something feels weird about this. Have read on Twitter that he was found in a different place to where the ride finished. Also that the ride has been edited since. Someone must have stopped the ride, and uploaded it. How would there be a signal in a ravine? Was his bike with him? Rumours of brake marks close to where he was found.
He apparently can’t remember.
I’m sure there’s a simple explanation. Absolutely. Must be.
As an aside, there is Strava
As an aside, there is Strava Beacon, which can be enabled to allow people to see your progress and location… handy for such situations.
I guess the Garmin would have autouploaded the ride when it was stopped, but that would need to be done by someone. Reminds me of that jersey which says “if I crash please pause my Strava”
If he had a head injury its
Article says he was found with concussion, not he was unconscious
You can still move around and do things with even severe concussion, something like saving a ride and moving off the road is probably done without thinking too much about it
Mb747 wrote:
Article (now) says he was found unconscious, the update article also has a quote from the team saying “Late afternoon a helicopter found Steven lying in a ravine, unconscious, but with a pulse and breathing. De Jongh was brought to consciousness by the paramedics and transported to the hospital in Girona” – so probably unconscious.
As PRSboy notes, he must have
As PRSboy notes, he must have been using Strava Beacon. This allows another person to track your progress in real time. His wife must either have been alert enough (or bored enough) to have been tracking him and raise an alarm when his dot stayed stopped for a while, or (I’m speculating but this seems likely) he had Garmin Incident Detection enabled.
“When paired with a compatible mobile device, devices that have Garmin’s Incident Detection feature have the ability to send an alert to your emergency contacts in the event of an accident.”
I’m glad he’s ok. Bit of a coup for Garmin.
If you read the actual
If you read the actual article, it’s clear he wasn’t using Beacon, or his wife was not following him there .
In fact, if you click through, someone tells his wife the ride is on Strava.
https://www.twitter.com/bvredevoort/status/1051846894668910593