GENEVA (AP) — A fellow rider says Colombia’s Juan Mauricio Soler hit a raised curb, fell onto a spectator and then smashed into a fence during the heavy crash in which he suffered brain injuries and multiple fractures.
Australian rider Baden Cooke says Soler “had no time to brake at all” before hitting the curb that sent him crashing into a spectator.
Cooke told The Associated Press on Friday that the 28-year-old Colombian then hit a fence about 2 feet off the road.
He said “the fence did not move at all so Soler took the full impact.”
Tour of Switzerland spokesman Christoph Arnold says Soler remains in an artificial coma at a hospital in the eastern city of St. Gallen.
