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World championship cyclists bombarded by swooping magpies in Australia

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World championship cyclists bombarded by swooping magpies in Australia

The 2022 UCI Road World Championships are taking place in Wollongong, 90km south of Sydney. Magpies are notorious for swooping down on cyclists. Dutch cyclist Bauke Mollema posted a video of himself and team Netherlands getting attacked by the birds. Swiss rider Stefan Kung had already been attacked. A man was killed in the city of Wolongongo in 2019 after crashing his bike while trying to avoid a swooped magpie. The UCi should have done their due diligence in mapping the racing track.

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