'I'm here to re-learn how to trust my colleagues': Fabio Jakobsen ready for racing return

The Tour of Turkey will be Jakobsen's first race back since his Tour of Poland crash, and says the goal is to help Mark Cavendish win a stage

Fabio Jakobsen training in Spain in January 2021 (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

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For someone who's been through what Fabio Jakobsen has, it's a miracle not simply that he's lining up for a bike race again, but that two days before the Tour of Turkey, he's in such good spirits.

At the Tour of Poland in August 2020, Jakobsen suffered brain trauma and serious facial injuries in a sprint finish crash, undergoing multiple surgeries, but the main emotion the Dutchman is feeling alongside nervousness ahead of his return is curiosity.

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Hi. I'm Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor. I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.


Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).


I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.