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The accident occurred the last few meters before the end of the first stage of the race in Katowice.
The video shows 23-year-old Jacobsen representing the Belgian team Deceuninck-Quick Step, competing fiercely with fellow Jumbo-Visma Dylan Groenewegen just before the finish.
When the cyclists erupted, Groenewegen suddenly turned the wheel to the right and stopped F. Jacobsen, who was circling the edge of the track. The latter crashed into the fences and collided with the photographer who was next to them.
“It just came to our attention then.” His life is in danger, “Barbara Jerschina, chief doctor of the race, told Polish sports channel Polsat Sport.
“Unfortunately, it is a serious head and brain injury. He lost a lot of blood. He is very strong. I hope he survives, “said the doctor.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) has strongly condemned Groenewegen’s “dangerous behavior”.
Patrick Lefevere, the Deceuninck-Quick Step team boss, called Groenewegen’s actions on the track a “crime.”
The incident came a year after Bjorg Lambrecht, a 22-year-old Belgian cyclist and junior world runner-up, collapsed and was fatally injured on the track during the third stage of the Tour of Poland.
VIDEO: Accident episode
“It was an unfair fight,” race organizer Czeslaw Lang told TVP Sport.
Groenewegen won the race, but was immediately disqualified and Jacobsen was declared the winner.
The UCI said it “strongly condemned the dangerous behavior of Dylan Groenewegen (Jumbo-Visma)”, which caused Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-Quickstep) to break the fences a few meters before the goal and a collective collapse at the end of the first Tour of Poland. . stage ‘.
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