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Rider from Eritrea lost during E3 Harelbeke
By: Editor
26/03/16 - 10u31
Mekseb Debesay yesterday experienced a remarkable E3 Harelbeke. The 24 year old rider from Eritrea went wrong during the race, lost and found only after 21:00 his hotel again. "An amazing story," said Pierre Heynderickx, his team manager at Dimension Data, in Het Nieuwsblad.
"He drove his first race in Flanders," Heynderickx continues. "He fell behind in a group that decided to twenty kilometers from the finish to take back roads to Harelbeke. Debesay was afraid of getting lost and decided to follow the arrows on the course to become so to the finish. Unfortunately, he strayed from the right path. at one point he had already 206 kilometers on his counter, while the match but was 200 kilometers. but Harelbeke he did not. "
"Eventually he asked desperate to help a tourist." Please, where is Harelbeke? "He stammered," says Heynderickx. "That man suggested that they together to his home in Lierde would bikes. He let him take a shower, gave him fresh clothes and offered our hungry rider eat. Meanwhile, we were as a team very worried. I had already informed the police , the competition jury of the UCI and the organization, but no one had the slightest trace of him. Until suddenly came the redeeming phone at the Mercure Hotel in Roeselare.
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Received on Sat Mar 26 2016 - 07:00:34 EDT