{"id":460088,"date":"2026-02-05T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460088\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:02:07","slug":"emirati-cyclist-dies-in-tragic-training-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460088\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirati cyclist dies in tragic training accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"defaultstyled__StyledText-sc-11u52t4-1 huqwQJ margin-lg-bottom\" id=\"el-0-7TCC5VLU2NEKFGTJYUVI66ZSUA\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalnews.com\/tags\/emirati\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/thenationalnews.com\/tags\/emirati\">Emirati<\/a> cyclist who was a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/\">UAE<\/a> national youth team has died of injuries sustained in a training accident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"defaultstyled__StyledText-sc-11u52t4-1 huqwQJ margin-lg-bottom\" id=\"el-1-O5LHGAMMUNFZZLMMOHFWTZJEUI\">Ali Ahmed Nassirai collided with a vehicle parked on the hard shoulder of a road while riding alongside teammates in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/tags\/sharjah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/tags\/sharjah\">Sharjah<\/a> on Tuesday. He was taken to hospital but succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"defaultstyled__StyledText-sc-11u52t4-1 huqwQJ margin-lg-bottom\" id=\"el-3-YBGQZCO3CRF2ZBS6CFWINCK3N4\">In a statement on Facebook, the UAE Cycling Federation expressed deep sorrow over the loss and extended its condolences to Mr Nassirai\u2019s family, his teammates and the wider sporting community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Emirati cyclist who was a member of the UAE national youth team has died of injuries sustained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85,156,155,14915],"class_list":["post-460088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-story","tag-uae-desk-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460088","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=460088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}