{"id":266983,"date":"2025-07-16T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266983\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:10:10","slug":"tour-de-france-2025-how-dangerous-is-cyclings-most-prestigious-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266983\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2025: How dangerous is cycling’s most prestigious tour?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 2025 Tour alone, there have been a number of serious crashes and incidents that have forced riders to withdraw.<\/p>\n

Emilien Jeanniere abandoned during the fifth stage after fracturing a shoulder, while Joao Almeida left the race on stage nine after a crash two days earlier that involved a number of other riders.<\/p>\n

There have been four fatalities in the race’s history.<\/p>\n

The most recent was Italy’s Fabio Casartelli, who in 1995 crashed while descending the Col de Portet d’Aspet.<\/p>\n

The first was in 1910, when teenager Adolphe Heliere died during the race. The cause of his death is unclear but after he slept on the beach following a stage, doctors rescued him out of the sea, though were unable to save his life.<\/p>\n

In 1935, Francisco Cepeda died after crashing into a ravine while coming down the Col du Galibier.<\/p>\n

Britain’s Tommy Simpson<\/a> was the third racer to die during a Tour de France. <\/p>\n

A world champion in 1965, Simpson suffered multiple crashes while riding up Mont Ventoux in hot weather. <\/p>\n

He initially fell unconscious and was later pronounced dead at hospital.<\/p>\n

An autopsy founded traces of amphetamines in his body, though the official cause of his death was given as a heart attack.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Tour will go up Mont Ventoux, where a memorial remains for Simpson, on stage 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the 2025 Tour alone, there have been a number of serious crashes and incidents that have forced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114863788845392438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}