The Spanish rider was leaving to train together with Alejandro Valverde
The Movistar team rider Xavier Tondo, 32, died Monday in Granada after suffering a domestic accident. The Spanish rider dropped his garage door when he went out of their homes.
According to EFE reported the incident occurred shortly after 10.00 am when he apparently Movistar team rider, who was preparing for the Tour de France, was attempting to remove the building's garage his car, which got to see that the door was closing.
Once outside the vehicle, it was moved for reasons still unknown, either because they were in neutral, without running or handbrake, and the rider is caught between the car and the garage door, as the sources, who are investigating the exact circumstances in which the event occurred.
Tondo, which was then accompanied by another partner, according to the Guardia Civil, was preparing the Tour de France in Sierra Nevada and had been with the cyclist Alejandro Valverde to train.
A particular accident alerted at around 10.15 am the emergency coordination center 112, which mobilized the health workforce, the Guardia Civil, Local Police and Civil Protection Monachil.