Memory of Michael Goolaerts lives on in a race of sustained brutality | Richard Williams Read more“This is not a criminal investigation. An autopsy will be carried out in the coming days as part of the inquiry, although no date has been set for that. Among those to express his grief on social media was Wout van Aert, Goolaerts’s team leader at the Vérandas Willems-Crelan squad and widely regarded as the up-and-coming star of Belgian cycling. Yesterday was the most popular race in the world after the Tour de France. Belgian cycling has been hit hard in the past few years, since the death of Wouter Weylandt in the 2011 Giro d’Italia.

Source: The Guardian April 09, 2018 16:59 UTC