Seriously injured professional cyclist
After Horro fall on tour of Poland: Prosecutor’s office determined
The seriously injured professional cyclist Fabio Jakobsen cannot be seen in the picture. It lies further back in the rubble of the barriers into which it crashed.
© Szymon Gruchalski
The heavily overthrown professional cyclist Fabio Jakobsen should be brought out of an artificial coma these days. It is not clear whether he will ever race again. In the meantime, the public prosecutor’s office started to investigate the cause of the accident.
After the serious fall of the Dutch professional cyclist Fabio Jakobsen during the first stage of the tour of Poland, the public prosecutor’s office launched an investigation. The agency wants to find out whether someone is to blame for the injury to Jacobsen and an employee or whether they were the result of an accident.
“We have heard three witnesses so far, including a representative of the race organizers,” said a spokeswoman for the Katowice prosecutor’s office on Thursday evening, according to the PAP news agency. Further witnesses should be heard, the prosecutor’s office also wants to analyze the evidence. The police had previously secured material, including the bicycles of the professional cyclists and video recordings of the accident.
Crashed into the gate at high speed
Long-time professional cyclist Jens Voigt meanwhile demanded a hard punishment for Dylan Groenewegen, who had pushed Jakobsen off the track: “I am already thinking about three to six months. It should be something that hurts and sends the signal to all other professionals : A red line was crossed here, we no longer accept that, “said Voigt at Sport1.
You can’t play with a colleague’s life, career or health, said the 48-year-old. “If the line was left so obviously, life and limb were deliberately risked, there must also be harsher punishments.”
Jakobsen crashed into the barriers at high speed on Wednesday in the finish sprint of the first stage and remained motionless. Jakobsen survived a five-hour operation and was put into an artificial coma. His condition was stable on Thursday, the doctors want to get him out of an artificial coma on Friday.
