Muriel Furrer dead at 18, tragedy at cycling world championships

Muriel Furrer è died

Muriel Furrer unfortunately did not make it. The website of RSI, the television of Italian Switzerland, gave the sad news announcing the death of the 18-year-old cyclist, victim of a terrible fall in the junior inline race yesterday at the World Championships in Zurich.

"The young Swiss rider had suffered a severe head injury, for which she was hospitalized in critical condition and underwent emergency surgery,” it reads.The 18-year-old was a talent not only in cycling, but also in mountain biking and cyclocross. At the last European MTB Championships she had won the bronze medal in the team relay".

The world road cycling and para-cycling championships in Zurich were going on smoothly: the Uci, Swiss Cycling and the organizing committee had announced this morning in a joint press release.