«Bike against a motorbike and broken femur. I’ll try to run again, let’s look for photos and videos”

«It shouldn’t have happened, there is no other way to interpret what happened. I paid the consequences of another’s mistake. Every mistake involves them, this time it was my turn to pay for them. And to another cyclist who was injured, as well as my twin brother Lorenzo.” He speaks with sincere bitterness Francesco Galimberti23 year old cyclist from Brianza for the team Biesse Carrera. Cyclist with great hopes, returning from victories obtained in Pontedera, recently but also in Emilia, last year with the victory of the Bologna Cup.

The accident at the Giro di Romagna: cyclists against a motorbike

Last Sunday, April 21st, he ran the Tour of Romagna, won by the Portuguese Antonio Mogardo, but he didn’t finish in the rankings. A few meters from the arrival at Castrocaro Terme he collided against a motorbike on which one of the cameramen who were filming the competition up close was traveling. “I have the broken femur in several places – he says – it is now swollen, I am hospitalized in Cesena and I will only have surgery when yes it will deflate and conditions will allow it.”

Francesco Galimberti, 23 years old, broke his femur

The centaur driving the motorbike he has caused the accident, according to the findings and the many testimonies he had not used the detour for unauthorized vehicles and had stopped beyond the sign. In fact, the cyclists arriving from Lugo, where the competition started, at the finish line in Castrocaro Terme in the heart of the Forlivese municipality, they crashed the motorbike at full speed. “THE risks in this sport as in others there are – Galimberti continues – let’s say however that when you are a few meters from the finish line with the barriers and everything else you think you are safer. The road must be free. I couldn’t do anything except slow down my body but the impact, this strong impact, was inevitable.”

«I’ll try to run again, everything was going well»

Now the 23-year-old is still trying to frame the future. «I don’t know the recovery times but I won’t give up. It’s obvious that I’ll run again, I’ll try. She was doing all right, ho won several races recently my goal this year was to reconfirm the results achieved in recent times and aspire to move to the professionals from the amateurs.”

The sports director: «We are looking for photos and videos of the accident»

The sporting director of the Biesse Carrera team, the former professional cyclist, also does not hide his bitterness Marco Milesi. «The motorcyclist did not use the detour as he should have for unauthorized vehicles like his. By mistake, definitely,” he pressed. But then he attacks. «But the big mistake was stop near the finish line creating a real wall for oncoming cyclists. We are searching for photos or videos who immortalized the scene to protect us from an insurance point of view and we are launching an appeal to send them to us if anyone has them”.

Career at risk: «Everything will depend on the operation»

Galimberti, now hospitalized in Cesena he was in a period of grace. «The of him is a bad injury. The doctor spoke clearly: the future will depend entirely on how the operation goes, which he will carry out as soon as conditions allow it. We will support Francesco, she is one of ours diamond tips. He was going really strong recently. He and his brother are excellent climbers, like Marco Pantani. Francesco would soon compete in many competitions abroad.”