Tour de Pologne organisers 'feared the worst' for Jakobsen after stage 1 crash
Tour de Pologne race organisers have released a statement following a horrific crash during the final sprint of stage 1 that resulted in Deceuninck-QuickStep sprinter Fabio Jakobsen being airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries on Wednesday. Race director Czeslaw Lang said he feared the worst for Jakobsen, who has been placed in a medically-induced coma, but after visiting the Santa Barbara Hospital in Sosnowiec, Lang was relieved to learn that the rider's condition had stabalised."I followed the situation from the beginning," Lang said in a statement released by the organisers of the Tour de Pologne. "I have just come back from the Sosnowiec Santa Barbara Hospital.