Speaking afterwards, Paul O’Shea said the family were unable to get any closure over their son’s death because of the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n
“We have had no updates from the criminal procedure in France because while the investigation is ongoing, they don’t release any information.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been told it can take years and years as that’s just the way it operates in France.”<\/p>\n
He added: “It’s unimaginable what life is like and to have this hanging over us in the background is terrible.<\/p>\n
“We know that Sam wasn’t at fault whatsoever – he was on the right side of the road and was just cycling along with his friends – so we just want some sort of justice.”<\/p>\n
Mr O’Shea and his wife Angela, who also have an older daughter, Holly, said Sam was “amazing” and his death had been “heartbreaking” for them all.<\/p>\n
He said he had had thousands of messages from people all over the world and the impact he had made on people and those in the triathlon community was “enormous”.<\/p>\n
An spokesperson for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: “We are supporting the family of a British man who died in France and are in contact with the local authorities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking afterwards, Paul O’Shea said the family were unable to get any closure over their son’s death because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-312598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}