Amador describes assault as most frightening moment of his life

Movistar rider Andrey Amador has described the attack he suffered by a group of muggers when out training in his home country of Costa Rica as "the most frightening moment of my life". The incident happened on the 24-year-old's final training ride of the year when the occupants of two cars stopped him, severely assaulted him, stole his Pinarello team bike and left him for dead in a river bed.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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