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Cycling community mourns loss of Paralympian killed in DFW
A Paralympic cycling who won multiple medals at Paralympic games died after being struck by a vehicle in McKinney on Thursday. FOX 4's Amelia Jones has more on Dory Selinger and his legacy.
MCKINNEY, Texas - The cycling community is mourning the loss of a Paralympian cyclist who was killed in a McKinney car crash on Thursday.
Fatal crash in McKinney
What we know:
The McKinney Police Department responded to a crash involving a cyclist and a vehicle at the intersection of Alma Drive and State Highway 121 earlier on Thursday.
The cyclist was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Police said the driver of the vehicle involved in the crash stayed at the scene following the accident, and the incident was not a hit-and-run.
What we don't know:
McKinney PD have not released details on what led to the crash.
Paralympian cyclist remembered
What they're saying:
Friends and family identified the cyclist killed as 54-year-old Dory Selinger.
Selinger was a gold medal-winning cyclist at the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta in track cycling. He won a silver medal and two bronze medals at the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney.
He also won gold medals at the 1998 and 2002 Para-cycling World Championships.
Dory Selinger (middle)
His leg was amputated from the knee down after a woman suffering a mental episode intentionally drove into his group of cyclists in 1993.
"He really took a bad situation of losing a leg, turned that around to make his life even better and accomplish more than he would have otherwise, according to him," Ryan Crissey, a friend of Selinger's, told FOX 4's Amelia Jones.
Crissey says he'll miss his humor, his mentorship, and his kindness.
"I was getting texts and messages on social media all day from riders around the world at all levels, just of how much he inspired them and motivated them and, mentored them," Crissey continued. "Hearing from Olympians and professionals about what a big deal he was to them."
"The world got a little darker today without him there."
"I guess you want to ask why, but there's just really no answers," Bradley Cobb, Selinger's former teammate, told Jones. "If Dory had come out of this one, he'd come back even stronger again. That's just kind of the way he was, and unfortunately, he didn't come out of this one."
Dory Selinger (right)
What you can do:
Crissey has started a GoFundMe to support Selinger's family, which you can find here.
The Source: Information in this story comes from the McKinney Police Department and friends of Dory Selinger.