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If you watch enough bike racing you’ll see plenty of bizarre accidents, and unfortunately we saw another on Monday at an early-season stage race in the United Arab Emirates when the Italian rider Antonio Tiberi crashed dramatically on the finish line of stage two’s time trial.
La terrible chute à l’arrivée d’Antonio Tiberi de la @TrekSegafredo #uaetour #uaetour21 #uaetour2021 pic.twitter.com/nUpwZeJr8m
— Les Rois du Peloton (@LRoisDuPeloton) February 22, 2021
His US-registered Trek-Segafredo team said he was treated at a hospital where he received stitches for multiple abrasions, the deepest of which was in his right knee. He was “otherwise fine” and taken to his hotel, the team tweeted, though it added that Tiberi would not continue in the race.
It’s unclear what caused the 19-year-old to crash. Racing in his aero time-trial position in a straight line, he appeared to lose control of his bike and wobble before going down dramatically at high speed. His team said it was investigating what happened.
Despite his crash, Tiberi — who won the junior world championship time trial in 2019 — was his team’s fastest finisher on Monday. He ended up finishing 19th fastest overall on the stage, with an average speed of nearly 33 mph.
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