{"id":32886,"date":"2025-07-29T22:50:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32886\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:50:22","slug":"holy-cow-mountain-biker-breaks-wrist-in-viral-leogang-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32886\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHoly cow!\u201d Mountain biker breaks wrist in viral Leogang crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leogang bike park: a destination known for its big jumps, fast flow and occasional cow crossing. But few could have predicted what would happen next. Mid-air over a jump, the rider landed directly headed for a grazing cow, sending both into a heap and the internet into a frenzy. The video, posted to Instagram, has gone viral, sparking a mix of concern, confusion and cow-related comedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuuude, you broke yourself on a cow,\u201d one commenter wrote. Another added: \u201cNow you\u2019ve got beef with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wrist broken, video booming<\/p>\n<p>The crash ended with a broken wrist for the rider. No official update on the cow\u2019s condition has been provided, though it appeared to walk away shaken but standing. \u201cIs the cow ok?\u201d has become a common refrain in the comment section, alongside \u201cHoly Cow\u201d and \u201cPoor cow could have been hurt.\u201d Some viewers were upset, others couldn\u2019t help themselves: \u201cHeute Abend gibt\u2019s Steak,\u201d one German commenter quipped\u2014\u201cTonight we\u2019re having steak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trail safety and grazing hazards<\/p>\n<p>Leogang\u2019s bike park is built into working alpine pastureland. Cows grazing trailside are a normal summer sight\u2014but when livestock wanders on to the actual trail, the results can be dangerous. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XpKoZVPE1s4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">isn\u2019t the first time<\/a> a crash like this has happened at Leogang. A previous \u201ccow crash\u201d also went viral, raising questions about signage, fencing and who\u2019s responsible when riders and animals collide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are you biking on the cow path?\u201d one comment asked. But as many mountain bikers know, sometimes the cow path is the bike trail.<\/p>\n<p>More sympathy for the cow?<\/p>\n<p>One of the more surprising takeaways from the viral video is just how few people seemed worried about the rider. \u201cThere\u2019s like one nice comment towards the biker,\u201d one person noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beef aside, the internet delivered<\/p>\n<p>Between puns, genuine concern and sheer disbelief if there\u2019s a lesson to be learned, it might just be this: even in the age of suspension kinematics and carbon rims, cows still have the final say on alpine trails.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope both rider and bovine recover quickly and that everyone keeps their eyes up on the trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leogang bike park: a destination known for its big jumps, fast flow and occasional cow crossing. But few&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,1700,82],"class_list":["post-32886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-mtb-features","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}