Mourning in Japan. The country’s triathlon champion Tsudoi Miyazaki has tragically died while training.
The 25-year-old, who was preparing in France ahead of the Olympic Games, which will be hosted in Paris in 2024, was training in the Saint-Cyr-en-Val area when she suddenly lost control of her bike, which resulted in her being swept into oncoming traffic. from a passing vehicle.
The accident was confirmed by the prosecutor of Orléans, Emmanuelle Bosennec Piren, who did not want to make public the details of the death. However, the Lausanne-based International Triathlon Federation announced that it was Miyazaki, who was training in France after a World Cup race in Spain.
According to the prosecution, Miyazaki “he was with two other cyclists from the Japanese team when he suddenly fell, crossing into the oncoming traffic, where another vehicle was passing. Despite the intervention of the emergency services, the young woman died».
The prosecutor’s office opened an investigation, assigned to the national gendarmerie, for manslaughter in order to ascertain the circumstances of the accident.
“The first tests carried out on the driver of the vehicle involved, a man of German nationality who lives in France, are negative“, the prosecution clarified in a relevant press release, while at the same time, an autopsy was requested.
“We are saddened by this dramatic car accident. She is a triathlete from the Japanese team, who was training in Solon. He could compete in the Paris Olympics“, explained to the French news agency (AFP), the mayor of the small town on the outskirts of Orléans, Vincent Missot.
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