{"id":555237,"date":"2026-03-21T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555237\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T16:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:04:09","slug":"cyclist-debora-silvestri-taken-to-hospital-after-horror-crash-during-milan-sanremo-classic-spring-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555237\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist Debora Silvestri taken to hospital after horror crash during Milan-Sanremo classic | Spring Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Italian cyclist Debora Silvestri was taken to a hospital after a horrific-looking crash during the women\u2019s Milan-Sanremo one-day classic on Saturday. Several cyclists were caught up in the incident, with Silvestri tumbling over a guardrail as riders tried to avoid the pileup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Silvestri\u2019s team, Laboral Kutxa, said the 27-year-old was conscious as she was transported and that it would give an update on her condition later. The incident happened on the descent down the famous Cipressa climb, less than 20km (12 miles) from the end of the 156km route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two of the favourites for the race, Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney and Kim Le Court Pienaar, were also involved in the crash. Niewiadoma-Phinney was unable to continue, while Le Court Pienaar remounted but finished 99th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Lotte Kopecky claimed victory, edging out Noemi R\u00fcegg and Eleonora Gasparrini in a sprint of five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The women\u2019s race was running from Genoa, while the men\u2019s race, later on Saturday, started in Pavia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian cyclist Debora Silvestri was taken to a hospital after a horrific-looking crash during the women\u2019s Milan-Sanremo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-555237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555237","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=555237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}