Six young riders from the VDM-Trawobo team competed in the Vermarc Grand Prix on Sunday in tribute to Niels De Vriendt, who died on Saturday, suffered a heart attack during the Wortegem-Petegem race. Pierre Despontin, in the DH, summarized: “Despite the great sadness that invades the Belgian cycling family as well as my team, we decided to start to pay him a beautiful tribute on this professional race, in the midst of the greatest World Tour riders. It was a dark day on Saturday with the death of Niels. He fell heavily with a few other runners. He got up and left for a hundred meters. Before collapsing. It is not yet clear what he had: was an organ affected in this fall, is that what caused the death? For the moment, we don’t know. It’s hard, it’s so sad… ”
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