Death
On September 17, 2000, Reinhart was killed during a 42-mile circuit race held on a 3.5-mile course in Arlington, Massachusetts. Her left pedal and foot hit a concrete curb and she was thrown from her bicycle and struck a tree. (The accident that killed Wouter Weylandt in May, 2011 happened in almost precisely the same manner.) This event was the last of four races comprising the 2000 BMC Software Cycling Grand Prix. She had won the previous three. The organizers offered $250,000 to any rider who won all four. The prize was donated to her family, who established the Nicole Reinhart Foundation in Macungie, Pennsylvania, in her honor.
In 2004, Reinhart was inducted posthumously into the Lehigh Valley Velodrome Hall of Fame in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania.
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