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Fabio Jakobsen wins Tour de France stage, two years after horrific ... (Home of the Olympic Channel)

Fabio Jakobsen, a Dutchman who less than two years ago was in a medically induced coma after a race crash, won the second stage of his debut Tour de France.

Yellow jersey Yves Lampaert and Rigoberto Uran were involved in a multi-rider crash on the bridge during stage 2. Injuries included brain and lung contusions, skull fractures, a broken nose and the loss of 10 teeth. Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, the two-time defending Tour champion, remains in optimal position in third place overall.

Fabio Jakobsen caps incredible comeback with Stage 2 win at Tour de France, Wout van Aert rides into yellow (Eurosport.com)

Fabio Jakobsen (QuickStep - Alpha Vinyl) emerged unscathed from a chaotic climax to claim the first road stage of the Tour de France 2022 in a sprint finish. In victory the Dutch debutant completed his comeback from the live-threatening crash at the ...

I was next to Sagan - we kind of touched each other but luckily we stayed upright - and then it was a final stretch of 150m where I could launch, and I could pass the other two. The EF rider chose that point to end his ride, leaving it to Bystrom to wrap up the first combativity prize of the race, and ensure he would enjoy a podium presentation of his own. The EF rider chose that point to end his ride, leaving it to Bystrom to wrap up the first combativity prize of the race, and ensure he would enjoy a podium presentation of his own. I could stay behind Morkov, who dropped me off in the wheel of Van Aert, and then in the last few hundred metres I was a bit on the left. Into the final phase of the stage, and with the Great Belt Bridge looming, nerves began to fray in the bunch. Wout van Aert would have won it were it not for a brilliant Fabio Jakobsen, who licked Peter Sagan's plate then helped himself to the stage win. Right as they hit the bridge itself a touch of wheels caused another EF rider to go flying. He got them, outfoxing both B&B riders to steal the first mountains point on the Côte d'Asnæs Indelukke, before sailing away in the company of Bystrom to clean up the rest. The three mountains points available on the stage all came in the first half. Magnus Cort Nielsen (EF Education Easypost) was the most eager to get away on home soil. Jakobsen even came out on top from a tussle with Peter Sagan in the home straight, which gave him a clear run to the line. All of which came after several crazy, crash-filled closing kilometres, including multiple crashes on or ahead of the much-anticipated stretch that crossed the 18km Great Belt Bridge. Rigoberto Uran (EF Education Easy Post) and Kevin Vermaerke (Team DSM) were among those going down on the approach.

Jakobsen wins Tour stage two after late crash as Van Aert takes yellow (The Guardian)

Fabio Jakobsen, selected ahead of multiple stage winner Mark Cavendish for the QuickStep team, won stage two of the 2022 Tour de France.

Even before the bridge, tensions were high with Groupama FDJ’s Stefan Küng and Ruben Guerreiro of EF Education EasyPost caught on camera in a shoving match, with Küng appearing to push Guerreiro on the head. Three kilometres later, the overnight race leader, Yves Lampaert, and his Quick-Step teammate Michael Morkov were among the fallers after another switch of wheels took down half a dozen riders. The high-speed crash he suffered was one of the worst in the history of the sport and traumatised all those at the scene. Selected ahead of the multiple stage winner Mark Cavendish, it was his first Tour stage success and completed the journey from intensive care to Tour de France podium. The much-criticised omission of Cavendish by his team manager, Patrick Lefevere, was vindicated as Jakobsen took his team’s second stage win in less than 24 hours. It’s an amazing day and I’d like to thank all the people that helped me to here.”

Fabio Jakobsen wins stage 2 at Tour de France 2022 - Results (Olympics)

Find out what happened in the 202.2km-stage from Roskilde to Nyborg in Denmark on the second day in the saddle for riders at the men's Grand Tour event.

Friday 22 July: Stage 19 – Castelnau-Magnoac – Cahors (188.5km) Thursday 21 July: Stage 18 – Lourdes-Hautacam (143.5km) Wednesday 20 July: Stage 17 – Saint-Gaudens-Peyragudes (130km) Tuesday 19 July: Stage 16 – Carcassonne-Foix (178,5km) Sun 3 July: Stage 3 – Vejle-Sonderborg (182 km) Sunday 17 July: Stage 15 – Rodez-Carcassonne (202.5km)

Redemption for Fabio Jakobsen who takes his maiden Tour victory ... (CyclingTips)

Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) takes his maiden Tour de France victory on stage 2 of the Tour de France. It's a redemptive result for a variety of ...

However, most of the favourites for the stage were safe and a frantic sprint played out as expected. In the end, it wasn’t so much echelon action that spiced up the bridge, but a crash in the bunch knocked down yellow jersey Yves Lampaert and held up vital lead-out rider Michael Mørkøv (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) about 20 km from the finish. His 36th career victory came at the end of a nervous first road stage.

Jakobsen: I'm sure Cavendish enjoyed watching my Tour de France ... (Cyclingnews.com)

Fabio Jakobsen praises his incredible fortune in racing again, and pays tribute to mentoring from Mark Cavendish.

We know this is not the nicest way to do it [with fans and press] towards the fence. “I think we do our very best with the masks and trying to maintain distance. "I'm just grateful and of course I'm happy, but the crash made me more humble," he said. There's other examples of riders that don't get the chance to make it back - as a person or as a bike rider." Given Jakobsen's horrific crash at the Tour of Poland in 2020, the press conference centred on the humbling story of Jakobsen's recovery from a near-fatal incident. “This is racing, and with Peter you know he's going to stay upright,” Jakobsen said.

Fabio Jakobsen sprints to victory on stage two of the Tour de France (Cycling Weekly)

Jakobsen beats Wout Van Aert and Mads Pedersen to secure the win in Nyborg.

Amongst the stress in the peloton two riders were on the floor at 21 km to go, Rigoberto Urán (EF Education-EasyPost) and Kevin Vermaeke (Team DSM) and the race was beginning to split. Onto the bridge and there would be another crash, this time involving the yellow jersey, Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl), as well as Lampaert’s teammate and key leadout man for Fabio Jakobsen, Michael Mørkøv. Both riders would eventually make it back ready to support Jakobsen. At 10 km to go, Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) was burying himself to try and get his team leader back into the peloton. Ineos Grenadiers and TotalEnergies were locked onto the front of the peloton as the race was rapidly approaching the Great Belt Bridge. Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe) would make it back into the peloton in good time ready for the widely-expected carnage to come. Eventually Bystrøm (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert) would be caught and at 26 km to go, Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) and Ruben Guerreiro (EF Education-EasyPost) were involved in an altercation caught by the television cameras. Cort and Bystrøm (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert) went straight over the top and left the B & B riders behind. Cort and Bystrøm sailed over the intermediate sprint whilst Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) took third in the race’s first fight between the main sprinters. Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) took second place ahead of Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) and 10 bonus seconds to take over the lead in the general classification. The EF Education-EasyPost rider would be caught by the peloton and Bystrøm would be left ahead for a little while longer. At 62 km as the race pushed on, Bystrøm put in a small attack and soon left Cort behind. At the halfway point the wind was picking up and Cort and Bystrøm still led the race by three minutes. Jakobsen and his Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl teammates timed their lead out to perfection to secure a huge win for the Dutch sprinter beating the likes of Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma). The first King of the Mountain point was up for grabs and Rolland (B & B Hotels-KTM) was doing everything he could to take it.

Tour de France: Netherlands' Fabio Jakobsen wins stage two, van ... (FRANCE 24)

Sprinter Fabio Jakobsen won stage two of the Tour de France on Saturday vindicating his Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team's decision to select him ahead of Mark ...

The main feature of the race was the crossing of the Great Belt Bridge where overall leader Yves Lampaert was one of many fallers in strong winds. A day after an awe-inspiring wall of sound reverberated around Copenhagen reaching its peak as Jonas Vingegaard was swept along on a wave of emotion, rural Denmark also turned out in raucous droves to roar on the riders in bright sunshine. Jakobsen edged Jumbo-Visma's Wout van Aert, who took the overall leader's yellow jersey after the 202.2km run from Roskilde to Nyborg in Denmark that included a treacherous crossing of the 18km-long Great Belt Bridge.

Inside Fabio Jakobsen's remarkable recovery: 'His body was in ruins' (VeloNews)

Dr. Heiko Locher takes us inside the process that took Jakobsen from career-threatening injuries to the top of the Tour de France.

He says it took around “half a year” for it to be clear Jakobsen’s larynx was going to work. And I gave him the LUMC cycling jersey,” he says, laughing. He could walk a little but then he was tired very soon,” Locher says of his time at the hospital. He took his first win three months later at the Tour de Wallonie; sixteen more have followed in the last twelve months. His body and mind had to recover too. “In his case, it had to heal by itself or it wouldn’t,” Locher says. For the first couple of months, Jakobsen lay in a darkened room. On an emotional level, the tracheostomy was important: Jakobsen could finally communicate with his family, girlfriend Delore, and those closest to him. “So if you have a laryngeal patient who has a tracheostomy, it’s very advantageous for healing to remove it as soon as possible. He reached out to Quick-Step using their website contact form, also asking the maker of his custom-painted steel frame to put him in touch with the team. I didn’t die but it felt like that … These were the longest days of my life,” he told AD in a 2020 interview. A laryngeal expert at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Locher put his chances of recovery at 50-50.

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