Susan Walker is slipping - DeFauw found dead in Belgium

She's usually right on top of these dead cyclists.


It’s almost a full three years since a crash in the Gent six day led
to the death of the Spanish sprinter Isaac Galvez, but that tragic
accident appears to have claimed another life. The Belgian rider
Dimitri De Fauw, who was involved in the collision that caused Galvez
to hit the barrier at the top of the banking, has been found dead. It
appears that he has taken his own life. The 28 year old had suffered
from depression since the accident in Gent.

He competed with the Quick Step team for three years until the end of
2005, then moved to Chocolade Jacques in 2006. However De Fauw was
predominantly known as a track rider. His wins include ten Belgian
national titles, in the sprint, scratch race, keirin and kilometre TT.

He was also a silver medallist in the national under 23 road race
championship in 2001, and won criteriums plus stages in races such as
the Tour du Loir-et-Cher.

Most recently, De Fauw competed in the six days of Grenoble in France.
He and Marc Hester finished seventh overall there, after which he
returned to Belgium with his friend and fellow rider Iljo Keisse.

"I really do not know what I should say,” Keisse told Sporza. “I
really can not believe it. I was with him for a week in Grenoble and
noticed nothing wrong with him. He was perhaps a bit on the quiet
side.

“I drove back home with him and Gianni Meersman. We went through the
night and arrived back in Ghent at 8am in the moring. I noticed
nothing abnormal about him. ‘I'll call you this week to train,’ he
told me."

Keisse said that he had been affected by the accident with Galvez.
“There were days when he laughed, played and did crazy things and days
when he was silent. Racing since then was difficult for him, you could
see that. But everyone knew him as a joker, a funny guy. He very
seldom talked about serious things.”

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Anton Berlin wrote:

She's usually right on top of these dead cyclists.


It¹s almost a full three years since a crash in the Gent six day led
to the death of the Spanish sprinter Isaac Galvez, but that tragic
accident appears to have claimed another life. The Belgian rider
Dimitri De Fauw, who was involved in the collision that caused Galvez
to hit the barrier at the top of the banking, has been found dead. It
appears that he has taken his own life. The 28 year old had suffered
from depression since the accident in Gent.

I read a book last year called "Head Cases," which was a popular account
of the nature of head injuries.

The sense was that personality changes after serious head injuries were
pretty common. I don't know if De Fauw got a head injury, but it's a
possibility.

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

Anton Berlin wrote:

She's usually right on top of these dead cyclists.

It’s almost a full three years since a crash in the Gent six day led
to the death of the Spanish sprinter Isaac Galvez, but that tragic
accident appears to have claimed another life. The Belgian rider
Dimitri De Fauw, who was involved in the collision that caused Galvez
to hit the barrier at the top of the banking, has been found dead. It
appears that he has taken his own life. The 28 year old had suffered
from depression since the accident in Gent.

He competed with the Quick Step team for three years until the end of
2005, then moved to Chocolade Jacques in 2006. However De Fauw was
predominantly known as a track rider. His wins include ten Belgian
national titles, in the sprint, scratch race, keirin and kilometre TT.

He was also a silver medallist in the national under 23 road race
championship in 2001, and won criteriums plus stages in races such as
the Tour du Loir-et-Cher.

Most recently, De Fauw competed in the six days of Grenoble in France.
He and Marc Hester finished seventh overall there, after which he
returned to Belgium with his friend and fellow rider Iljo Keisse.

"I really do not know what I should say,” Keisse told Sporza. “I
really can not believe it. I was with him for a week in Grenoble and
noticed nothing wrong with him. He was perhaps a bit on the quiet
side.

“I drove back home with him and Gianni Meersman. We went through the
night and arrived back in Ghent at 8am in the moring. I noticed
nothing abnormal about him. ‘I'll call you this week to train,’ he
told me."

Keisse said that he had been affected by the accident with Galvez.
“There were days when he laughed, played and did crazy things and days
when he was silent. Racing since then was difficult for him, you could
see that. But everyone knew him as a joker, a funny guy. He very
seldom talked about serious things.”

How do we know it was a suicide? He could have died from dizziness just
from going around in circles his entire goddamn life.

Magilla

The sense was that personality changes after serious head injuries were
pretty common.

Yeah, it's been predicted for me too, given the injuries frontally in
my brains.
But given the feedback I get, there seems to be improvement instead of
damage.

thanks,
BART

Bart wrote:
The sense was that personality changes after serious head injuries were
pretty common.

Yeah, it's been predicted for me too, given the injuries frontally in
my brains.
But given the feedback I get, there seems to be improvement instead of
damage.

Yay!

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Susan Walker wrote:

Bart wrote:
The sense was that personality changes after serious head injuries were
pretty common.

Yeah, it's been predicted for me too, given the injuries frontally in
my brains.
But given the feedback I get, there seems to be improvement instead of
damage.

Yay!

Sweet, that's like getting superpowers from a fatal dose of radiation.

Instead of, you know, death.

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

In article ,
Anton Berlin wrote:

It¹s almost a full three years since a crash in the Gent six day led
to the death of the Spanish sprinter Isaac Galvez, but that tragic
accident appears to have claimed another life. The Belgian rider
Dimitri De Fauw, who was involved in the collision that caused Galvez
to hit the barrier at the top of the banking, has been found dead. It
appears that he has taken his own life. The 28 year old had suffered
from depression since the accident in Gent.

It'd be really hard to know if the crash with Galvez had anything to do with De
Fauw's decision to end his life but it'd be pretty sad if it did. It's sad no matter
what, of course.

--
tanx,
Howard

Caught playing safe
It's a bored game

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

On Nov 10, 9:14*am, MagillaGorilla wrote:

How do we know it was a suicide? *He could have died from dizziness just
from going around in circles his entire goddamn life.

Why don't you look at his picture and see if he had self esteem?

R

Howard Kveck wrote:
It'd be really hard to know if the crash with Galvez had anything to do with De
Fauw's decision to end his life but it'd be pretty sad if it did. It's sad no matter
what, of course.

Some (search term: Dedecker) say that De Fauw was "over" Galvez and
mostly had a hard time these last few years because he was being shunned
by the cycling world after he broke omerta and spoke out about the
doping and drug-fuelled parties at Quick-Step (where he rode for 1 year).

Susan Walker wrote:
Howard Kveck wrote:
It'd be really hard to know if the crash with Galvez had anything
to do with De Fauw's decision to end his life but it'd be pretty sad
if it did. It's sad no matter what, of course.

Some (search term: Dedecker) say that De Fauw was "over" Galvez and
mostly had a hard time these last few years because he was being shunned
by the cycling world after he broke omerta and spoke out about the
doping and drug-fuelled parties at Quick-Step (where he rode for 1 year).

If he "broke omerta", he had to have something unusual going on with his
thought processes to begin with. That's not something riders ordinarily do.