Fabio Jakobsen: The doctors at the finish line saved my life
Deceuninck-QuickStep sprinter speaks for first time after Tour de Pologne cras🍌h

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Jakobsen has spoken for the first time since his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:high-speed crash at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Pologne, revealing he was grateful to bꦓe alive but confirming he faces several months of enforced rest due to sufferi🐻ng severe concussion and multiple surgeries to treat his facial injuries.
Jakobsen crashed through the roadside barriers on the Tour de Pologne's opening stage finish after 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jumbo-Visma sprinter and fellow Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen deviated from his line in the downhill sprint. He was placed into an induced coma in hospital as m🌄edical staff fought to sꦚave his life.
"It is now two weeks after my crash in Poland. The trauma doctors and nurses at the finish line in Katowice saved my life, for which I am extremely grateful to them," Jakobsen said in a personal message released by his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Deceuninck-QuickStep team.
"I spent a week in the intensive care unit at St. Barbara hospital in Sosnowiec. They immediately operated on me for five hours and gave me the chaﷺnce to live. I am very grateful to all employees of this hospital.
"It was a difficult, dark period for me in the ICU, where🍷 I was afraid of not surviving. Thanks in part to the organization behind the Tour de Pologne and my team Deceuninck–QuickStep; my family was able to be close to me, which gave me a lot of strength," added the 23-year-old Dutch rider.
Jakobsen was transferred from Poland to the Netherlands l🎐ast week, with photographs showing him walking from an ambඣulance to a private plane. He spent some time in the Leiden University Medical Center in central Netherlands but is now at home.
"Step by step I can start tไo live more independently. Currently I am at home, where the wounds in my face and my injuries can con🔴tinue to recover," he said, fully aware he faces a lengthy recovery.
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"I have to rest a lot in the coming months because of a severe concussion. In the coming weeks and months,꧂ I will undergo multiple surgeries and treatments to fix facial injuries."
He thanks ev🅰eryone who had sent him messages of support and the medical staff in Polanಌd, in the Deceuninck-QuickStep team and the organisers of the Tour de Pologne, who helped his family.
"I want to let everyone know that I am very grateful that I am still alive. All the messages and words of support have given me tremendous strength. Step by step I can slowly look to the future, and I will fight to recove൩r," Jakobsen said.
"In particular I would like to thank Dr. Rafael, who was my surgeon in Poland, Dr. van Mol, who was present as a team doctor in Poland, Patrick Lefꦛevere who brought my family close to me and Agata Lang ☂and family who, on behalf of the Tour of Poland, did very well in taking care of my family."