“Despite the best efforts of the phenomenal staff at Chur hospital, Gino couldn’t make it through this, his final and biggest challenge, and at 11:30am we said goodbye to one of the shining lights of our team,” the crew stated.
Race officers and clinical body of workers all of a sudden answered, finding Mader in an unresponsive atmosphere. The race physician diligently carried out resuscitation efforts, and therefore, Mader was once airlifted to the health facility for additional clinical consideration. In spite of the most productive efforts of the clinical crew, it’s with deep grief that Gino Mader’s passing was once showed through his crew, Bahrain Victorious, on Friday.
In a remark, crew managing director Milan Erzen stated: “We are devastated by the loss of our exceptional cyclist, Gino Mader. His talent, dedication, and enthusiasm were an inspiration to us all.
“Now not best was once he a particularly proficient bicycle owner, however a superb particular person off the motorcycle. We lengthen our inner most reliefs to his population and family members, and our ideas are with them all the way through this tough presen.”
Erzen said the team would continue in the race in honour of Mader.
“We’re ambitious to turn the spirit and keenness Gino displayed, and he’ll all the time stay an integral a part of our crew,” he said.
Mader joined the Bahrain Victorious team in 2021 and won a stage of the Giro d’Italia that year. He also won the young rider classification at the 2021 Vuelta a Espana.
A statement from the professional riders’ association CPA, read: “Our hearts bleed at this information. Reassurances to his population, the crew and the various buddies who liked him.
“Like all of us. RIP Gino.”
(With Reuters Inputs)
