Jan Bakelants (AG2R La Mondiale) has returned home after surgery on one of the four vertebra he fractured during his terrifying crash at Il Lombardia, revealing he was lucky not suffer more serious injury.
The Belgian rider was diagnosed with seven rib fractures, two dorsal (thoracic) fractures and two lumbar fractures. He will know in a month if surgery has been successful and if he will able to race again.
“The doctors are confident, but of course they cannot give a 100 per cent guarantee. Now the hope is that my body recovers. Only then can I start planning about what could be the old me again,” Bakelants told Sporza in an interview at home at the weekend.
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Bakelants posted a photo of him lying in bed, with his baby daughter nearby and wrote: “So good to be home.”
So good to be home... #heeldedagBumba http://pic.twitter.com/WBDruJknPE
— Jan Bakelants (@Jan_Bakelants) October 21, 2017
The 31-year-old Belgian crashed out of Il Lombardia two weeks ago and spent several days in hospital in Italy before being transferred to Leuven for surgery. Like Laurens De Plus, Simone Petilli and Daniel Martinez, Bakelants flipped over the roadside barriers at high speed on the descent of the Sormano.
The risk of further injury
No rush to ride again
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