Shocking news from Spain, where junior cyclist Ivan Melendez Luque died on Saturday. The 17-year-old Spaniard was involved in a crash in the peloton in the Vuelta Junior Ribera del Duero and could not be saved by the emergency services.<\/p>\n
Melendez Luque, riding for Tenerife-Cabberty, was one of the victims of a major crash in the second stage of the race. He was clearly in a serious condition and was resuscitated, but to no avail.<\/p>\n
The second stage was canceled after the severity of the accident became clear, and Sunday’s third stage will also not take place.<\/p>\n
The UCI has also issued a statement. “The UCI deeply mourns the tragic passing of Spanish rider Iv\u00e1n Mel\u00e9ndez Luque (Tenerife-Cabberty U19 Team), who succumbed to injuries sustained today in a crash at the @VueltaRibera in Spain. We extend our sincere condolences to his family, friends, and the cycling community.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shocking news from Spain, where junior cyclist Ivan Melendez Luque died on Saturday. The 17-year-old Spaniard was involved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-92014","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\/92014","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=92014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}