Recently, it has become my habit to scan various cycling media outlets several times each day in hopes of finding news. In this era of reading the news as it is happening, the race to get a story up on the web is just about as intense as the racing itself. It is fun for me to watch the chips fall, if you will, and to see what country or language will break the story first.

Tuesday, as I glanced at the headlines on various different sites I came up with a story about riders from the Omega Pharma – Lotto team crashing during their training camp, which is happening Spain, as we speak.

Yesterday, I read another story about a rider from Liquigas who crashed while training and suffered a double collarbone fracture.

Let me summarize here for a second – professional bike racers are crashing during training rides. Ladies and gentlemen, I need your help to figure out what exactly is going on here? Have the world’s best bike riders forgotten how to ride their bikes?

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