Post by tajiritarantula on Jul 19, 2005 3:04:34 GMT -5
May she rest in peace.
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A leading Australian road cyclist was killed and her five national team mates seriously injured when a car ploughed into them on a training ride in Germany.
Amy Gillett, 29, a former Olympic rower, died in the accident near the east German city of Leipzig.
Early reports said the cyclists were struck when a car driven by an 18-year-old woman who had just got her licence crossed onto the wrong side of the road.
"It was a runaway car with an 18-year-old driver," an AIS spokesman said.
The injured riders, all fellow members of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) women's road squad, were named as Katie Brown, 22, of Sydney, Lorian Graham, 27, of Brisbane, Kate Nichols, 20, of Sydney, Alexis Rhodes, 20, of Kersbrook, South Australia, and Louise Yaxley, 23, of Penguin, Tasmania.
Brown is the sister of Graham Brown, who won a team pursuit gold medal at the Athens Olympics, and Nicholls is the daughter of Kevin Nicholls, who won a gold medal in the same event in Los Angeles in 1984.
The international cycling website cyclingnews.com said three of them were in a critical condition after being taken to hospital by helicopter.
Lorna Graham of Rockhampton, whose 27-year-old daughter Lorian suffered two broken collarbones and a broken knee, said her daughter was not as badly injured as the others.
"There were six (cyclists) total. They were riding along and a car came over the white line and hit them head-on," she told ABC radio.
"I've been told Lorian is one of the better ones out of it. One poor girl has been killed and I'm not sure what the other four people are like."
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A leading Australian road cyclist was killed and her five national team mates seriously injured when a car ploughed into them on a training ride in Germany.
Amy Gillett, 29, a former Olympic rower, died in the accident near the east German city of Leipzig.
Early reports said the cyclists were struck when a car driven by an 18-year-old woman who had just got her licence crossed onto the wrong side of the road.
"It was a runaway car with an 18-year-old driver," an AIS spokesman said.
The injured riders, all fellow members of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) women's road squad, were named as Katie Brown, 22, of Sydney, Lorian Graham, 27, of Brisbane, Kate Nichols, 20, of Sydney, Alexis Rhodes, 20, of Kersbrook, South Australia, and Louise Yaxley, 23, of Penguin, Tasmania.
Brown is the sister of Graham Brown, who won a team pursuit gold medal at the Athens Olympics, and Nicholls is the daughter of Kevin Nicholls, who won a gold medal in the same event in Los Angeles in 1984.
The international cycling website cyclingnews.com said three of them were in a critical condition after being taken to hospital by helicopter.
Lorna Graham of Rockhampton, whose 27-year-old daughter Lorian suffered two broken collarbones and a broken knee, said her daughter was not as badly injured as the others.
"There were six (cyclists) total. They were riding along and a car came over the white line and hit them head-on," she told ABC radio.
"I've been told Lorian is one of the better ones out of it. One poor girl has been killed and I'm not sure what the other four people are like."