{"id":746510,"date":"2026-06-19T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/746510\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:27:10","slug":"an-absolutely-wild-near-miss-with-a-truck-for-marco-lamais-in-lenzerheide-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/746510\/","title":{"rendered":"An absolutely wild near-miss with a truck for Marco Lamais in Lenzerheide practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a weird year for World Cup downhill. First, Wyn Masters broke his arm after hitting another rider in practice in South Korea. Then Troy Brosnan<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/mtb\/troy-brosnan-somehow-survived-hitting-another-riders-bike-in-leogang-practice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> somehow surived a scary high-speed crash into another riders bike in Leogang<\/a>. On Thursday, Marco Lamais nearly joined that list. While riding in practice in Lenzerheide, Lamais narrowly avoided a collision with, of all things, a course vehicle at a road crossing near the top of the course.<\/p>\n<p>Lamais is very lucky (read: very skilled) to have avoided that one. Half a second later and that would have been much worse.<\/p>\n<p>Watch below. Then <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/mtb\/rob-warner-is-back-how-and-when-to-watch-the-lenzerheide-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">find out the best way to watch racing this weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a weird year for World Cup downhill. First, Wyn Masters broke his arm after hitting another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[21898,49,48,635,1180,81837,62722,94306,82,13009],"class_list":["post-746510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-downhill","tag-lenzerheide","tag-mtb-news","tag-near-miss","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746510","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=746510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}