We're sorry to learn of Wouter Weylandt's death - Tragic conclusion to Stage 3

Leopard-Trek's Wouter Weylandt died in today's third stage of the Giro d'Italia in a crash on a hairpin turn descending the Passo del Bocco. The crash was not captured on film and its causes aren't clear (reports are he clipped a pedal on the road or the wall), but Weylandt's head struck a retaining wall on the hairpin bend and he reportedly died of a fractured skull. Efforts to revive him were complicated by the location's inaccessibility to helicopters, though descriptions of the crash and injuries suggest that there was never much hope of surviving. A native of Gent, Belgium, Weylandt was 26 years old and is survived by his wife who is expecting the couple's first child in September.