Six members of the German cycling team have been hospitalised after an elderly man drove “head-on” into them.
The country’s endurance track team were training in Mallorca when the incident took place on Monday.
They had headed out from their hotel in Palma for a ride when they were hit by a car after 1.7 miles (2.7km).
The driver, an 89-year-old man, failed to see the group coming and rammed them head-on, German Cycling said in a statement.
The national coach Lucas Schadlich had been accompanying the group in his car and witnessed the accident.
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Some of the athletes suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries, including broken bones.
They were all said to have been taken to hospital.
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The affected cyclists were Benjamin Boos, Tobias Buck-Gramcko, Bruno Kessler, Max-David Briese, Moritz Augenstein and Louis Gentzik.
The team had been preparing for the European track championships next month in Belgium.
