Two days after his fatal crash the team of tragic Bjorg Lambrecht has revealed the nature of his injuries left him with almost no hope of survival.
He died in hospital after a crash during the 150.5km stage 3 at the Tour de Pologne on Monday from Chorzów to Zabrze.
Lotto-Soudal said because the 22-year-old suffered a
major liver laceration, he would have needed a miracle to survive.
The Belgian star in the making died on Monday when he crashed into a concrete roadside culvert which was embedded in a crash verge.
Today the team issued a statement from its doctor Maarten
Meirhaeghe outlining how Lambrecht’s was so unlucky even immediate surgery
would not have saved him.
He was taken to hospital where surgery was attempted
though he was sadly pronounced dead. His team mates led home a shortened and
neutralised stage at the Tour of Poland yesterday.
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And today when racing resumed his team mates went in the
early breakaway and on the counterattack to honour him.
Dr Meirhaeghe described Lambrecht’s fatal injuries in the
following short statement issued by the team:
“Bjorg died from a big liver laceration which caused a
massive internal hemorrhage,” he said.
“As a consequence, Bjorg suffered a cardiac arrest. Bjorg
had the biggest stroke of bad luck that was possible by the way he crashed.
“With such internal hemorrhages, a miracle is needed, a
miracle which he wasn’t given. The place and the time did not influence the
consequences.
“Even if such trauma would have happened inside a
hospital, chances of a bad outcome are real.”
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