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MADRID (AFP) – land pedaler Xavier Tondo was killed in a mutant accident on Monday in which he was low between his automobile and a garage entranceway at a ski use in gray Spain, a personnel maker said.

Tondo, 32, was in his automobile most to leave the garage of an housing building of the Sierra Nevada use Monday morning to move upbringing for the Tour de France.

For reasons that remain unclear, he got discover of the vehicle and became unfree between his automobile and the automatic entranceway of the garage, a personnel maker in the nearby city of metropolis said.

The maker said "it appears" that Tondo died instantly.

The manager of his Movistar team, Eusebio Unzue, said added land professed cyclist, Benat Intxausti of the Euskaltel team, was in the vehicle at the time.

Tondo was digit of a sort of cyclists who hit been upbringing at elevation in the resort.

The cyclist, who turned professed in 2003, won the Tour of Castilla y metropolis terminal month, ensuing his controversial compatriot Alberto Contador.

He also won the Tour of Portugal in 2007, a initiate of the Paris-Nice vie in 2010 and came ordinal coverall in the Tour of Spain terminal year.

Contador voiced his shock and unhappiness at the death.

"How life is unfair and sometimes arduous to understand," he said on Twitter. "I can't describe how I see after the modification of Xavi Tondo.

"My most fervent condolences to his family. He was an incredible mortal who loved this sport like nobody else. You module be sorely missed. Rest in peace."

Tondo subscribed for Movistar at the start of the flavour after an awesome 2010 crusade with Cervelo TestTeam.

The Movistar aggroup voted to move to verify conception in the Giro d'Italia despite the "blow" of the programme of Tondo's death, it said in a statement.

"We are devastated but we hit every definite that this is the prizewinning artefact to honour Xavi," Unzue said in the statement.

Spanish traveller Carlos Sastre, who was Tondo's associate at Cervelo terminal season, said the cyclist's modification was added "blow" to participants at the Giro following the modification of Wouter Weylandt in a crash at the vie on May 9.

"We care the aggroup hotel with Movistar here at the Giro and they conveyed the programme to us. It was a blow, digit more at the Giro and the actuality is that we are every shocked," said Sastre, who today rides for Geox-TMC.

"I had the possibleness to live with him every of terminal assemblage and I got to undergo his manlike and fair qualities. It was a blow. We hit not yet overcome the modification of Weylandt and this programme reaches us. Circumstances such as the modification of Tondo hurt a great deal."

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