![]() ![]() By 1929, at least 47 people had died while racing at velodromes – 33 cyclists and 14 pacemakers. Safety has been a concern since cycling's early days. Pacemakers are motorcyclists utilized in motor-paced racing, riding motorcycles in front of their cycling teammates to provide additional speed to those cyclists via the resulting slipstream. ![]() The athletes listed here were either professional cyclists, professional pacemakers, retired champion cyclists, or well-known competitive amateurs who had a cycling-related death, mostly during a race or during training. The first documented deaths of competitive cyclists during competition or training date to the 1890s and early 1900s when the recently-invented safety bicycle made cycling more popular, both as a sport and as a mode of transport. The cyclist Paul Dangla and his pacemaker teammate Marius Thé in the Vélodrome d'Hiver ( c. ![]()
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