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Franco Ballerini Dead

  • 07-02-2010 6:08pm
    #1
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/441600/franco-ballerini-dies-in-car-race.html

    "Italian national director and former Paris-Roubaix winner Franco Ballerini, 45, died in Larciano, Italy, this morning due to injuries suffered in a rally car race.

    Ballerini co-piloted a rally car driven by Italian Alessandro Ciardi when they went off course and crashed around 8:30. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, both were taken to a hospital near Pistoia, but Ballerini died despite the help of medics."

    RIP Franco


Comments

  • #2
    Slideshowbob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭Slideshowbob


    RIP

    2 time Paris Roubaix legend


  • #3
    sy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭sy


    I read that yesterday, so sad as he was one of my favourites. An animal on the cobbles (legs like tree trunks) and the opposition Duclos-Lassalle, Museeuw, Van Petegem,Tafi and Tchmil etc were all class acts. In fact Duclose-Lassalle pipped him on the line in 1993 but he went on to win it twice after that. A Paris Roubaix legend as Slideshowbob said and Kelly was a big fan. RIP
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