Fabio Jakobsen on 2020 horror crash with Dylan Groenewegen - 'The goal was to just become a normal man again'

Fabio Jakobsen has opened up on his horrific crash in 2020, saying it has made him a “humble and grateful” person. Jakobsen collided with Dylan Groenewegen in a sprint finish at the Tour of Poland and hit the barriers hard, which left him with a fractured skull, broken nose, facial lacerations and almost no teeth. Ad He was placed in a medically-induced coma but made an incredible return to the peloton eight months later at the Tour of Turkey.

Tirreno — Adriatico‘It made me humble and grateful’ – Jakobsen opens up on horror crash3 HOURS AGO “It was a process which went step by step,” Jakobsen told Eurosport. “For some people it might have gone fast, but in the end it was almost a year. “I just took it one day at a time and one race at a time, one training at a time.

I think that's the way you want to approach something like that because if you would have seen me on August 6, then thought where I would be now, it would be impossible to imagine. “You should not think about the past too much. But if you see there is progress, it's actually good to remember where you came from.

“To this day, I still have that now. So that makes me a very humble and grateful person to be here, to still be a professional bike rider is something that I love to do. I'm happy I'm not that scared that I don't want to race the bike anymore.” Jakobsen has previously revealed the last memory he has of the stage was racing behind his team-mates Davide Ballerini and Florian Senechal, before his “mind went blank”.

The Soudal–Quick-Step rider now says getting his mind in a place to go all-out in the final sprint was one of the toughest aspects of his road to recovery. “I was missing 10 teeth, some bone in the in the facial area,” he said. “I lost 10kg of