Stig Broeckx at the 2015 Giro d'Italia
Doctors are concerned that Lotto-Soudal rider Stig Broeckx will not regain consciousness due to severe brain injuries suffered in a crash with a race motorbike at the Belgium Tour in May.
The Belgian rider is in a vegetative state in hospital, according to a Lotto-Soudal medical report, with attempts made by the neurosurgical team in Genk to wake him from an induced coma.
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