Groenewegen apologizes: “Can’t find words for it”

“I think it's terrible what happened. I can't find words to express how sorry I am for Fabio and the others involved," Groenewegen said in a statement from his Jumbo team.

Jakobsen was pushed into the barriers at the front of the Groenewegen mass sprint at the finish line of the first stage. The 23-year-old crashed through the advertising boards into a concrete barrier and sustained, among other things, serious facial injuries. Jakobsen had to undergo emergency surgery and be put into an artificial coma. No more danger to life There is now no longer any danger to life. “Attempts to bring the patient out of the induced coma will be carried out gradually,” said a spokesman for the hospital in Sosnowiec, Poland, according to the news agency PAP on Thursday. malefactor In any case, Groenewegen was massively criticized for his offense.

Dylan Groenewegen shows remorse. © APA/afp / PHILIPPE LOPEZ

“I think about Fabio all the time” Dylan Groenewegen “All that matters now is Fabio’s health. I think about him all the time,” said Groenewegen, who, like other riders, also fell and broke his collarbone. He was excluded from the tour and is also facing sanctions from the World Cycling Association. Investigations are ongoing The public prosecutor's office has already started the investigation. The authorities want to find out whether someone is to blame for the injuries to Jakobsen and an employee or whether they were the result of an accident.

“We have heard from three witnesses so far, including a representative of the race organizers,” said a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor’s office in Katowice (Poland) on Thursday evening, according to the news agency PAP . More witnesses should be heard, and the public prosecutor also wants to analyze the evidence. The police had previously seized material, including the bicycles of the professional cyclists and video recordings of the accident.

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Groenewegen apologizes: “Can’t find words for it”

The Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen has apologized to his seriously injured compatriot Fabio Jakobsen for causing the mass fall at the start of the Tour of Poland cycling on Wednesday.

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