Belgian Under-23 rider Milan Bral died Sunday after he was struck by a driver of a vehicle while on a training ride in Ronse. He was taken to a hospital in Ghent, where he later died in the evening due to his injuries, according to a report by Wielerflits.
“It is with great sadness that we have to say goodbye to our racer and teammate Milan Bral. After his serious accident, during training this afternoon, he was unfortunately unable to win his fight. He died in the hospital, surrounded by his loved ones,” his club team, Dovy Keukens-FCC Cycling, posted to Instagram a day ago.
It is cycling’s second tragedy in the space of one week, after Camilo Muñoz died of an infection of wounds sustained in a crash during the Tour de Jura.
“I will do everything this season to point to the sky for you. I remember well when you got angry at me because I almost fell in off a cliff in Mallorca; you thought you had lost me and said you didn’t want to lose me. Look now, now I have lost you and can’t do anything I would like to do to bring you back. Milan always told me a quote ‘DREAM F*CKING BIG’ and I will definitely do that. Milan, rest peacefully up there my best big brother, I will miss you.”
“I don’t know where to start, where to end. I don’t want it to end. But it is like that. The only thing I’ve said in the last 24 hours is ‘Damn it, Milan. That is impossible. Surely not you’,’” Vanmarcke began his post (in Flemish), on Instagram.
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