The young Belgian rider Antoine Demoitié died – Le Point

Antoine Demoitié, the young Belgian rider of the team Wanty-Gobert an accident when cycling classic Gent-Wevelgem on Sunday died, told Agence France-Presse gendarmerie. “The rider died. An investigation is underway to determine the circumstances, “said Agence France-Presse Frédéric Evrard, communication officer of the gendarmerie of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, adding that the investigation was assigned to the brigade search Hazebrouck (Nord).

arrived this season with the Belgian team of second division, the young puncher sprinter-Liège 25 years died at the Lille hospital, where he had accepted after accident at Sainte-Marie-Cappel (Nord), in the French part of this disputed Flandrian classic almost entirely in Belgium. Suffered a heavy fall in other riders company, about 150 kilometers after the start in Deinze (Belgium), the rider was then hit by a motorcycle while he was on the ground.

Excellent in sprints

hospitalized in “critical condition” in the words of his team in the ICU of the hospital of Lille, the young man was quickly joined his wife and his family. Arriving in early 2016 Wanty-Gobert, from the Brussels-Walonnie team, where he spent three seasons Antoine Demoitié dreamed of winning a “Flandrian” as one of those classic Gent-Wevelgem where his two idols are shown to two Belgian riders Tom Boonen and Philippe Gilbert.

Excellent especially in sprints reserved for punchers, particularly in uphill finishes, the Liegeois had notably won the Tour du Finistère 2014, a test of French Cup. In 2015 he took the 2nd place of the Handzame Classic GP Stad Zottegem and. This year, young Walloon rider was especially shown at the 1st stage of the Etoile de Bessèges, where he took 3rd place in a sprint won by Bryan Coquard.

Black Series

Less than a week after the bloody bombings in Brussels, the Belgian Cycling has been hit particularly hard during the weekend with the crash of another of his countrymen, Daan Myngheer victim of a myocardial Saturday on the Corsican roads of the Critérium International. Myngheer, a young Flemish rider 22, was in a coma Sunday in Ajaccio where he was taken yesterday by helicopter. “The life is involved,” said his training Roubaix Lille Métropole (3rd division) about the Belgian champion Junior 2011, which has not removed any success in the professional peloton.

Since the beginning of the year, the professional cycling peloton was affected by several accidents with sometimes fatal consequences, as in the French hope Romain Guyot (23). The young Vendée U runner, reservoir of the professional team Direct Energy, was hit at a crossroads, March 5, in La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée), a heavyweight who had not seen then he was up to a traffic light.

in January, six riders of the Giant team, including the German John Degenkolb (winner in 2015 Milan-San Remo and paris-Roubaix) and the French Warren Barguil had injured them, more or less seriously, in a sharp blow against a car. The riders, who were on a training ride south of Valencia (Spain), were mowed down by the vehicle that had apparently encroached on the opposite lane.