Italian cycling champion Davide Revelin has died after being hit by a truck while cycling through Montebello.
Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin, runner-up at the 2004 World Cycling Championships, He died after being hit by a truck this Wednesday. Near the municipality of Montebello Vicentino (Northeast).
“I am terribly shocked to hear this sad news. May the earth be a light to you, RIP Davide,” he wrote on social networks. Vincenzo Nibali Rebelin’s partner for the Italian national team.
Rebellin, 51, was hit by a truck while biking down a highway. he continued his route without noticing the hit-and-run media coverage.
The Italian, who ended his sports career in October 2022 at the ‘Veneto Classic’ (Italy), turned professional in 1992, shortly after participating in the Barcelona Olympics. GB-MG Magrificio.
A classics specialist, Rebelin has spent 30 years pedaling, competing in stages of the Giro d’Italia (1996), three times the Flèche Wallonne (2004, 2007, 2009) and Liège, among other competitions.・I won the Bastogne. Liège (2004), San Sebastian (1997) Classic and Amstel His Gold His Race (2004) became the first ever to win this last competition in 2004.
In 2008, he was embroiled in controversy for failing doping control Won a silver medal in the road bike category at the Beijing Olympics.
Davide Rebellin had to return his Olympic medals and diplomas, but seven years later acquitted by a court in Padua .
The National Union of Hill Tribes and Communities (UNCEM) mourned Levelin’s death and highlighted the issue of safety for cyclists on the road.
“We cannot accept it. Appropriate policy options for cyclists’ safety on the road come too late. UNCEM joins family pain and great cycling,” reads the statement.
Source: Biobiochile
