The WBA and WBO Lightweight Champion Vasyl Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs) admitted that he nearly crashed twice in his car: “There were no serious accidents, thank God, but there were some that could be on the verge.
“Once I flew off the road. After the 2008 Olympic Games, Kolos community presented me with Honda Accord and I just returned from Kiev, and I think I should take a ride. We have one straight long road and I pedal it to the floor, on full throttle... I, for some reason, slowed down, did not calculate speed, stopping distance and flew off the road to the curb...
“In general, I stopped two meters before the quarry, it was possible to fly off. There was a gas pillar on the right, a sign on the left, and a little tree to the left. In general, it happened that I hit the gate, so to speak. It brought me the first time so.
“Then I had a Mitsubishi Evolution. At my house there is a turn in the form of a horseshoe, and I loved to go sideways there. I returned from training, and I had bald tires, I had to change, but I went sideways again. And when it left the corner, I saw a cyclist and was afraid that I would crash him. I pressed the brake and at that moment I started to turn, it threw me out of the way into the wasteland, and there stood a pillar. I stopped from it somewhere in 10 centimeters. The rear bumper was 10 centimeters from the post. A little bit more and I could hug the pillar."
