Fabio Jakobsen is allowed to leave the hospital in Poland on Wednesday. Exactly a week after heavy fall in the Tour of Poland, the 23-year-old cyclist is taken to the Netherlands on a medical flight.
“A week ago we thought he was going to die,” said Deceuninck-QuickStep sports director Patrick Lefevere. “It is fantastic news that he can now go to the Netherlands to be closer to his family.”
Jakobsen will continue to work on his rehabilitation at the university hospital in Leiden, which will take a long time.
Crash
The Dutch sprinter was the biggest victim of a crash in the first stage of the Polish race, which was caused by Dylan Groenewegen. The Dutch champion flew over the fences and, in his fall, shattered, among other things, the palate and the trachea and suffered many fractures in his face.
Jakobsen underwent a five-hour operation on his face in Poland and was kept in an artificial coma for two days. earlier reported team doctor Yvan Vanmol that the Dutch champion awaits a long period of rehabilitation. The expectation that he can return to top sport would be realistic, according to him.
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