E3 Harelbeke: Mekseb Debesay will long remember his first race in Flanders
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Mekseb Debesay got lost in his first race in Flanders and ended at 21h at his hotel.
Mekseb Debesay went wrong during the race, he got lost and ended up at his hotel only to 21:00. According Heynderickx Pierre, his manager at Dimension Data, it is rather amazing. 20 km from the finish, he was in a group that decided to take a "shortcut" to find Harelbeke Debesay but did not follow and decided to follow the arrow course. That's when he saw he had 206 km on his counter he asked his way to a man. This man had offered him to eat and take a shower.
Meanwhile, the team was very concerned. Pierre Heynderickx had already informed the police, the jury of the UCL and organization but nobody had the slightest trace of the rider until the phone rang.
