The cycling community has rallied around the family of 19-year-old Finlay Tarling, who was killed in a collision at the Volta a Portugal, with the professional riders’ union “speechless and filled with anger” at his death as it called for a serious overhaul of racing safety measures.
The Welsh teenager was hit by a non-race vehicle on stage eight of the race last Friday and died shortly after the crash. The vehicle, which was driving the opposite way to the riders, was not prevented from getting onto the course despite the race having not entirely passed that section of road.
