Tour of Portugal: after Tarling's death, the race will continue

The president of the Portuguese Cycling Federation, Cândido Barbosa, has announced that the Tour of Portugal must continue, despite the death of 19-year-old cyclist Finlay Tarling, hit by a car while racing the eighth stage between Melgaço and Fafe, northern Portugal, on Friday afternoon. “I ask all the athletes to find the strength to complete the last two days of the Tour of Portugal,” said Barbosa, who described this moment as the hardest of his cycling life.

Meanwhile, a clearer reconstruction of the accident has arrived: the Welshman Finlay Tarling had fallen far behind the other competitors due to a technical problem and was trying to recover the lost ground. Suddenly he found a commercial vehicle traveling against traffic in his path and hit him. It still remains to be explained how it was possible for a car not belonging to the race group to have found itself on that road.