Sports doctor critical after another death during Tour for cycling tourists: “Organization must recommend medical screening more prominently”

Should medical screening be mandatory at major sporting events? It is a question that has been discussed for several years. During this year’s Tour for cycling tourists, a 50-year-old British man died in Kluisbergen in East Flanders. Two others had to be resuscitated and taken to hospital. Sports doctor Luk Buyse knows that mandatory screening cannot rule out everything, but believes that “the organization is still somewhat lacking” when it comes to raising awareness of the dangers of exercise.

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