When I wrote my Tour de France update and created the Hochsauerland 2023 picture gallery, I hadn’t yet heard of the tragic news of Gino Mäder’s passing.
I, like many more, had hopes he would recover from his horror crash during the Albula descent during stage 5 of the Tour de Suisse.
But looking at the pictures from the crash site, the fact that he was actually dead and had to be resuscitated for 25 (!) minutes, were already bad omens.
