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Updated: Lotto-Soudal's Bjorg Lambrecht dies after Tour de Pologne crash
Lotto-Soudal have confirmed that their rider Bjorg Lambrecht has died following a crash during today's opening stage of the Tour de Pologne.
The 22-year-old was taken to hospital following the crash, which happened with around with around 85 kilometres remaining of today's stage from Chorzow to Zabrze.
Lambrecht, who turned professional with Lotto-Soudal last year, was one of the best of a new generation of Belgian talent.
He was second overall behind Egan Bernal at the Tour de l’Avenir in 2017, and earlier that year won the under-23 edition of Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
Last year, he won a stage of the Tour des Fjords and finished the Norwegian race as runner-up on GC to Mitchelton-Scott’s Michael Albasini. He was also second in the Under-23 road race at the UCI Road Cycling World Championships in Salzburg.
This season, he achieved a string of impressive results in some of cycling’s biggest races, finishing sixth at Amstel Gold, fourth at Fleche Wallonne and 12th overall at the Criterium du Dauphine.
He had been targeting a high overall finish at the Tour de Pologne and was also aiming for GC at the Vuelta a Espana, a race where he made his Grand Tour debut last year.
The biggest tragedy possible that could happen to the family, friends and teammates of Bjorg has happened… Rest in peace Bjorg... pic.twitter.com/9u9LZkp2Rt
— Lotto Soudal (@Lotto_Soudal) August 5, 2019
Simon has been news editor at road.cc since 2009, reporting on 10 editions and counting of pro cycling’s biggest races such as the Tour de France, stories on issues including infrastructure and campaigning, and interviewing some of the biggest names in cycling. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, his background has proved invaluable in reporting on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, and the bike industry. He splits his time between London and Cambridge, and loves taking his miniature schnauzer Elodie on adventures in the basket of her Elephant Bike.
I don't think many cyclists consider that to be a great bit of the highway code either. It's so vague it's next to useless, even with the photo...
#policingwhileanidiot?
Have you taken the wheel out and put it back recently? Or dropped down the side of a really deep pothole, or a hideous wheel mangling bike rack?...
Where's the delete button?
We don't need to know what you get up to in your car at night.
Strange, illogical - hmmm - child-like in my view. When you're really little, you have very little concept of what just happened, or what will be...
I might just add a Fisherman's Friend to my Jelly Babies and Electrolyte drink whilst on the trainer!
Did anyone think of looking at the Masi Giramondo 700c? ...
This was the final straw; the golden age of the closed road sportive is over. We will be lucky to get Ride London back.
I just thought I'd upload the NO image I used on this thread, but all I got for my trouble was a bunch of JSON.