Advocacy & Safety - Ferrero Rocher / Tic-Tac CEO faints on bicycle, dies.

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/04/18/ferrero-ceo-dies-in-accident/

Sad to hear of anyone dying suddenly like this. The headline on CNN's front page suggested some kind of more standard bicycle accident. Does it make sense to characterize probable exercise-related/underlying health issue-related deaths involving bicycles "accidents?"

I do think that things like this add to some folks' impression of cycling as dangerous. I think of the athletes who have died playing, say, basketball, yet no one seems to ascribe these deaths to an inherent danger in the sport.

You seem to be reading more into it than is in the article.
My condolences to the family of the deceased.

I agree. I think you're reading too much into this one. When you have a heart attack while driving and crash your car, it still is called a car crash or accident. Sad event though!

I agree. I think you're reading too much into this one. When you have a heart attack while driving and crash your car, it still is called a car crash or accident. Sad event though!

Yes, that is what I was thinking, but was also just wondering aloud about how people tend to read into these things.

You seem to be reading more into it than is in the article. Hmm, I'm not sure I agree.

The title is: Chocolate company CEO Pietro Ferrero dies in biking accident (http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/04/18/ferrero-ceo-dies-in-accident/)
And all the article says about what happened is "when he reportedly fainted and fell from his bicycle during a routine ride."

It may be that he fainted, fell and hit his head? Fainted, fell, hit by a car? They certainly do say he died in an "accident", not from a heart attack or something.

Either way, the wording is unfortunate.

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/04/18/ferrero-ceo-dies-in-accident/

Sad to hear of anyone dying suddenly like this. The headline on CNN's front page suggested some kind of more standard bicycle accident. Does it make sense to characterize probable exercise-related/underlying health issue-related deaths involving bicycles "accidents?"

I do think that things like this add to some folks' impression of cycling as dangerous. I think of the athletes who have died playing, say, basketball, yet no one seems to ascribe these deaths to an inherent danger in the sport.

Len Bias for onehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Bias

He died of a cocaine overdose, only two days after being selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA Draft. He graduated from the Univ. of Maryland, with a big drug habit during the decade when D.C. had 400 murders one year and Rayful Edmondshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayful_Edmond brought crack cocaine D.C. that same decade, ravaging the city.

Yet basketball(and baseball) are still considered hallowed sports. Cyclists that aren't professionals, are still considered a nuisance to society and they are just perceived as being dangerous.

Also, The potentially fatal injuries that can take place in basketballhttp://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/in-basketball-danger-of-head-trauma/

Then there is baseball injurieshttp://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-bats052908

I wonder if there is an air of jealousy, by those sports, because they can't 'take it on the road', when they want.

I will get off my 'gripe box' now.

It was a biking accident. The fainting part makes it not so run of the mill.