Fabio Jakobsen's state of health continues to improve. Two days after his terrible fall in the final sprint of the first stage of the Tour of Poland, the rider of the Deceuninck-Quick Step team came out on Friday from the artificial coma in which he had been plunged. Operated for five hours, the 23-year-old Dutchman is still hospitalized. According to the organizers of the event, the young cyclist is doing better: “We have good news from the hospital in Sosnowiec. Fabio Jakobsen is now awake from a coma. His condition is good. "
“The patient is conscious, he reacts to solicitations, he breathes on his own, the tension is normal. Today we are very happy, ”Pawel Gruenpeter, deputy director of the Sosnowiec hospital, told the Polish media. "If he survived such a fall, he will surely return to the sport," he added.
Launched at 80 km / h with the other sprinters in a downhill false flat, Fabio Jakobsen was thrown off the road by his compatriot Dylan Groenewegen (Jumbo-Visma).
The latter apologized on Thursday on his Twitter account. “I hate what happened yesterday. I can't find the words to describe how sorry I am for Fabio and the others who fell or were hit, he wrote. At the moment, Fabio's health is the most important thing. I think about him, constantly. "
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