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Japanse triathlete Tsudoi Miyazaki died Wednesday after being hit by a car while training on her bicycle near Orleans, France, per Olalla Cernuda of World Triathlon.
The 25-year-old recently completed the Pontevedra World Cup in Spain and was at an individual training camp in France at the time of the crash.
"World Triathlon and the Japan Triathlon Union want to offer our deepest condolences to Ms. Miyazaki's family, friends, coaches and teammates," the organization said in a statement. "The thoughts of all the Triathlon Family are with you all in these terrible times."
Miyazaki finished 50th in her latest competition in Spain and posted pictures and video on Instagram on Tuesday.
"It was a good experience and I hope it doesn't end, and I'm going to use what I feel next," Miyazaki said in the caption, via TMZ Sports. "Thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving me the challenge. Thank you for your support."
She won the Japan U23 Triathlon Championships in 2019 and was aiming to qualify for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
French authorities are reportedly investigating the crash.
Flora Duffy has won Bermuda's first-ever Olympic gold medal after she took first in the triathlon at the Tokyo Games with a time of 1:55.36.
Duffy persevered through rainy, wet and windy conditions to win gold at Tokyo's Odaiba Marine Park.
Great Britain's Georgia Taylor-Brown took second even though she suffered a flat tire during the bicycling portion of the race. She made up ground in the run, though, surpassing the United States' Katie Zaferes and ending second. Zaferes took the bronze.
You can find the full results on the Olympic website. The top 10 finishers are also below alongside race highlights.
Top-10 Finishers
1. Flora Duffy (Bermuda): 1:55.36
2. Georgia Taylor-Brown (Great Britain): 1:56.50
3. Katie Zaferes (United States): 1:57.03
4. Rachel Klamer (Netherlands): 1:57.48
5. Leonie Periault (France): 1:57.49
6. Nicola Spirig (Switzerland): 1:58.05
7. Alice Betto (Italy): 1:58.22
8. Laura Lindemann (Germany): 1:58.24
9. Jessica Learmonth (Great Britain): 1:58.28
10. Valerie Barthelemy (Belgium): 1:58.49
Thanks to Duffy, Bermuda is now the smallest nation to ever win Olympic gold, per Tom Lutz of the Guardian. Bermuda had a population of 63,903 in 2020, per The World Bank. The country is also 21 square miles.
Edward David Burt, the Premier of Bermuda, offered his congratulations.
Duffy outlasted 54 other competitors in the event, which consisted of a 1,500-meter swim, a 40-kilometer bike ride and a 10-kilometer run in that order. A race map can be found on the Olympics' website.
Great Britain's Jessica Learmonth took the lead during the swim portion and was the first one out of the water.
She led a group of seven women that included Duffy, Taylor-Brown, Zaferes, Germany's Laura Lindemann, Brazil's Vittoria Lopes and the United States' Summer Rappaport.
Rapoport fell behind in the bike portion, leading to a group of six. The same soon went for Lopes. By the end of the stage, Taylor-Brown fell behind as well due the flat tire, leaving a leading pack of Duffy, Learmonth, Zaferes and Lindemann.
A strong charge from Duffy put her in first place during the run, although Zaferes initially hung with her. However, Duffy extended her lead and soon ran alone en route to Bermuda's first-ever gold medal.
Impressively, Taylor-Brown covered a ton of lost ground, moving into third before surpassing Zafares for second.
In the end, Duffy won Bermuda's second-ever Olympic medal, with the first occurring in 1976 when Clarence Hill won bronze at men's heavyweight boxing in Montreal.
The 33-year-old Duffy sported a fantastic resume even before she won gold. Her list of accomplishments includes two ITU triathlon, two ITU cross triathlon and five XTERRA triathlon world championships. She was a triple world champion in 2016.
Now she's an Olympic gold medalist after securing first by a 74-second margin over the field.
Norway's Kristian Blummenfelt won the gold medal in the men's triathlon at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday, coming in with an unofficial time of 1:45:04.
His late push in the final lap of the running portion of the event saw him pull away from Great Britain's Alex Yee (1:45:15).
New Zealand's Hayden Wilde (1:45:24) won the bronze medal by a comfortable margin over a group that included Belgium's Marten van Riel (1:45:52), Great Britain's Jonathan Brownlee (1:45:53), the United States' Kevin McDowell (1:45:54) and Hungary's Bence Bicsak (1:45:56).
But the day belonged to Blummenfelt. He found himself with a big gap to make up after the swimming portion of the race, trailing France's Vincent Luis by 25 seconds. But he recovered nicely in the biking portion of the event, moving his way up to third place behind Switzerland's Andrea Salvisberg and Norway's Casper Stornes.
From there, he let his legs do the work, racing past the field to claim his first ever gold medal.
So exhausted was Blummenfelt that he vomited shortly after crossing the finish line.
The event started off in truly bizarre fashion, as it had to be restarted after a boat carrying media equipment floated into the path of the swimmers. That forced the buzzer to be sounded for a false alarm, the first time that's happened in Olympic triathlon history.
Many of the competitors didn't hear the buzzer, swimming nearly 200 meters before race organizers were able to stop them for the restart.
