Fabio Jakobsen’s bike was left damaged in three pieces after happening in the ultimate kilometre of stage 4 of the Tour de France.
The closing kilometers in Nogaro have been hectic, three crashes happening as increasingly more groups and sprinters made their strategy to the entrance of the group. Fabio Jakobsen was amongst these to hit the bottom in the primary incident and misplaced any probability to struggle for victory, which went to Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck).
Fortunately, the European Champion bought again on his bike and concluded the stage a few minutes behind the bunch.
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“Fabio has some wounds on his shoulder and back from the ‘nice’ asphalt. I suppose he won’t sleep very tonight,” staff supervisor Patrick Lefevere defined.
“There were a lot of crashes today on the circuit finish. The question is if it’s the fault of the circuit or of the riders. Some of the sprinters took some big risks. Unfortunately, sprinters always take risks and so it’s inevitable that there are crashes.”
“Fabio is OK but his bike is in three pieces, it was a hard crash,” added DS Tom Steels.
“He lost a lot of skin but let’s hope he recovers and feels OK on the bike so he can suffer through the Pyrenees.”
