He sits on the sygesengen with my thumb, but it could have gone so horribly wrong.

Saturday morning was a cyclist Mikel Landa from the team of Bahrain-McLaren, like so many other days out on the road to train with a mate in northern Spain.

Here, he was struck by a motorist from behind. It tells the 30-year-old spaniard, even on Twitter.

‘In the morning (Saturday, red.) while I trained with a friend, hit a car on us from behind and thrust of the. The first tests show that everything is fine. I hope to be able to train again within the next days’.

Flugtbilisten is later arrested and tested for possible ingestion of liquor and drugs, according to the Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo.

Mikel Landa has more credits on his cv. He has won three stages in the Giro d’italia, one Vuelta a España, while it has been to løbssejre in the Giro del Trentino and the Vuelta a Burgos.

While Mikel Landa escaped with fright, it went completely wrong during the Danish race Tour de Ascension in the summer. Here lost the 18-year-old cyclist Andreas Byskov Sarbo life, as a 27-year-old female motorist had strayed into løbsruten and hit the dane.

A judgment is subsequently determined that the woman was not at fault in the cykelrytterens death. The signs of cycling was poor, and annually up warned not the woman before a turn, affirms the judgment.

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