Mondorf-Les-Bains, Luxembourg: Esteban Chaves, co-leader of the Australian Orica-Scott team in the Tour de France, is continuing to race despite his grief over the sudden death of his personal physiotherapist in a cycling accident.
The team's head sports director Matt White said Chaves, from Colombia, learned of the tragedy late Sunday night after stage two, 205km from Düsseldorf in Germany to Liège.
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The physiotherapist, Diana Casas, died on Sunday after she crashed on a descent and collided with a car while riding in a recreational event 150km north-west of Bogota in Colombia.
"He is handling it well, considering," White said after Chaves signed on for the start of Tuesday's 207.5km fourth stage from Mondorf-les-Bains in Luxembourg to Vittel. "Everyone handles things differently when people who are close die."
White said Chaves and the team learned of the tragedy "the night before last [Sunday] at 11.30pm [European time]."
He said Chaves had an extremely close relationship with his physiotherapist.
Casas was instrumental in Chaves' rehabilitation from a career threatening right arm injury which he sustained in a crash in February, 2013 during the Trophy Laigueglia race.
White said Casas was to have joined Orica-Scott for this year's Vuelta a España in August-September to help Chaves who had pencilled in the race, pending how the Tour went.
"They had a very close relationship," White said just before the Tour resumed on Tuesday with Welshman Geraint Thomas (Sky) in the yellow jersey as the overall leader.
"I am sure Diana would have understood him racing on with all the work he has done to get where he is now. She would have wanted him to continue."