As they say “it could have been much worse”, if we stick to the images of the shocking video of the accident occurred during the celebration of the Tour of Venezuela 2025. In them we can clearly see as a police officer of the National Corps, known as UNB (Bolivarian National Police), crosses from one side of the hunted one carrying out a reckless and truly dangerous maneuver.
After and as the incident detail from local media, which took place in Santa Elena de Arenales, Bishop Municipality of Lora, leaving at least five injured people, among which were three of the cyclists who approached in the race squad just before the impact as well as a police officer and a career judge.
The return to Venezuela 2025 concludes without more shocks
After visualizing some of the videos that has been virilized in the network and that are directly related to the time of this unfortunate accident during the course of the third stage of the return to Venezuela 2025, the multiple accident of the Civil Guard has come to mind for not keeping the security distance in the return to Spain 2024, where fortunately, we had to regret personal damage.
One of those affected as a consequence of the clash between the motorized police and the race squad of Venezuela 2025 was the well -known Colombian cyclist Nicolás Gómez, of the GW Erco Shimano team. The team leader of the team itself declared the cycling world after the event: “Fortunately, Nicolás was immediately treated by the paramedics and could stand up to the ambulance. He suffered lacerations in the knee, but is aware.”
Concludes: “They sewed some punics and did some exams on one shoulder to see if he has something in the clavicle.” The other two cyclists involved in the clash were the Venezuelan Luis Enrique Díaz (Lottery of the Táchira) and the Portuguese César Martingil (Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortágua), although luckily they are all out of danger.
