The former cycling champion Davide Rebellin died, overwhelmed and killed by a pirate truck
He was 51 years old, the circumstance of the recognition of the body was also tragic. The brother was found by chance
Tragedy in the Vicenza area.
Former cycling champion Davide Rebellin died today at the age of 51 in a road accident .
He was riding his bike on the regional 11 Vicenza-Verona when a truck hit him near the Montebello Vicentino motorway junction.
According to what is learned, the truck driver would not have noticed the accident and continued his journey . The carabinieri are sifting through the images of the security cameras of a restaurant next to the crash site to identify the model and license plate of the vehicle.
The circumstance in which the recognition of the body took place is also tragic. A brother of Rebellin, Carlo, had learned from the media that there had been an accident in the area. He immediately rushed to the spot – perhaps a sort of premonition – and immediately recognized Davide's crumpled bike .
Rebellin, from Verona, has won, among other things, an Amstel Gold Race, three editions of the Freccia Vallone and a stage of the Giro d'Italia. A silver medal won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics was also revoked for positive doping. In 2004 he won a major road cycling classic, the Liège-Bastogne-Liège .
(Unioneonline/L)
