The North Texas triathlete community is mourning after two members of a Frisco triathlete club were hit and killed while cycling early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Just before 8:20 a.m. Saturday morning, Pilot Point police said they received calls that two men on bicycles were hit by a driver. It happened on FM 455 East, just east of Fritcher Road.<\/p>\n
Lifesaving measures were attempted at the scene. The cyclists, identified as Andre Kocher and Scott Mages, were taken to hospitals where they died from their injuries.<\/p>\n
Matthew Olivolo, an Ironman triathlete who lives in North Texas, said local men and women who take part in the multi-discipline sport are grieving.<\/p>\n
\u201cHearing the news this morning was just devastating. This is tragic for all cyclists and ironman triathletes,\u201d Olivolo said.<\/p>\n
Kocher and Mages were on a group ride with the Frisco Triathlon Club when they were hit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of hours on the road on your bike,\u201d said Olivolo. \u201cAnd you become very close with your peers and develop a brother and a sisterhood that is just unbreakable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olivolo chose to speak with NBC 5 at Endur3Bikes bike shop, where he said Frisco triathletes gather often. The meetups will now be without two adored athletes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can only imagine what the families are going through with this tragic loss. And my prayers go out to them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Police said the driver of the vehicle continued driving for a short distance but quickly returned and has been cooperative with the investigation.<\/p>\n
The Frisco Triathlon Club will host a Santa Run on Christmas Eve to honor the Kocher and Mages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North Texas triathlete community is mourning after two members of a Frisco triathlete club were hit and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,197945,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-363903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-denton-county","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}