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Two men on a motorcycle robbed Óscar Sevilla at gunpoint during a training ride in Bogotá on Monday. It's the second robbery he's survived while training in Colombia in eight years, and he's still there, still racing at 49.
The thieves took his phone but not his bike, and police told him there was nothing they could do. In 2018, five robbers attacked him on a similar early-morning ride and broke his arm, taking his bike, helmet and sunglasses. Sevilla has held Colombian citizenship since 2012 and rides for Team Medellín–EPM, based there since 2011. He renewed his contract for 2026 and will turn 50 mid-season — this is the cost he keeps paying to stay.
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