Muriel Furrer (18) dies after crash in women's junior road race at 2024 World Championships
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Condolences to the family of Muriel: As a Christian myself, I'm always thinking when someone dies, "Was he/she saved, a believer in Christ?" With a concerned heart I opened her personal Instagram page, and was very glad to see her often, openly, and unashamed expressing her trust and thankfulness in Jesus, the Son of God. To me, that's a rare jewel.
To me, that’s discriminatory and explanatory, it is why (with other religious discriminators) we have had so much unnecessary death and destruction in this world and surely(?) that was never « God »’s plan?
The best that can be said for Furrer and her entourage is that at least she passed whilst exercising her passion.
Whether one goes to a good or bad destination doesn't depend on faith in a God. It's how they conduct themselves. It just doesn't make any sense to make such claim that a person commits all sorts of vices while having faith in God can go to heaven (we know so many examples of people of faith doing atrocious things), while an agnostic person living a good life helping others going to purgatory.
Be a good christian, don't judge others based on their faith.
Your post is in very poor taste. Taking this tragedy as an opportunity to push your religious agenda is shameful. Her faith was her business - not some misguided grandstanding opportunity for you. The worst.
I won't go after anyone's faith. Especially not using a young woman's death as a platform to parrot a religious perspective. Poor taste.
Surly someone must of noticed her transponder hadn't moved in a while? They should have all been tracked.
Awful loss I dread to think how friends and family feel.
Typically in the races it is upto one of the 2 team cars to inform the medical car/organizers of the issue. Surely one of the riders with her or behind her would have noticed something, then they relay the info to their team car which in turn relays to the concerned team car or the medical car. In this race, there are no radios however.
Transponders would only reveal a rider had stopped, not why and don’t always work well under tree cover.
The organisation can be faulted for the course, especially in light of all that’s happened this year and the many warnings riders published ahead of the competition and considering the weather further increased the risks.
They should AT LEAST have placed marshals at the danger points for warning and observation. We don’t know all the details yet as everyone is wording things very vaguely (e.g. long time is a very relative term) but imagining a situation where a rider goes down where there is no-one watching, it seems pretty obvious that things will take a long time.
She may have been alone but even in a group, riders tend not to notice the severity of the consequences when a colleague falls, even in good conditions you don’t really have the chance to look back and watch what happens to signal it to appropriate persons, ESPECIALLY when you yourself are flying down a steep dangerous gradient in the rain with other riders up close. That is the unfortunate specificity of cycling.
Considering the description (steep downhill in pouring rain) I also doubt there were any spectators along that stretch who might have been able to call for help, one more reason why the organisation should have realised marshals would have been useful.
So much for Swiss efficiency
So heart breaking! I do wish they allowed team radios for worlds
RIP. Hopefully they investigate the incident and take actions to prevent such occurrence again.
So sad to be taken away at such a young age. It again shows how dangerous a sport cycling can be and we should give respect to all who take part.
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