today is a sad day at the giro. after being touted as one of the hardest in years with epic climbs and crazy descents, the cycling world lost one of their own.
wouter weylandt was descending and crashed. he suffered severe head trauma and they were never able to revive him. there was video uploaded to youtube of weylandt post crash. it was both gruesome and upsetting to see. fumiyuki beppu had this to say about weylandt's crash,
"Wouter Weylandt R.I.PI saw his crash real time. I was just behind him he was alone nobody around him at the moment on the downhill..." the riders in the peloton didn't know the severity of the crash until after they all finished. how gut wrenching for his teammates and for his best friend, tyler farrar. not since the death of
fabio casaretelli during 1995's tour de france, has the peloton had to deal with anything like this. tonight i will raise my beer in weylandt's honor. my thoughts and prayers are with his family, wife, friends and teammates.
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