Six professional cyclists were seriously injured Sunday during Stage 1 of the Tour of Qinghai Lake race in China when a jaywalker threw himself in front of a peloton of speeding racers just 2 kilometers from the finish line.

Tim Konrad is the founder of Unofficial Networks and a passionate skier with over two decades of experience in the ski industry. In 2006, he launched the blog from Lake Tahoe with his brother John, evolving...