Jumbo Visma's Milan Bader is recovering from a major crash in Iturria-Basque two weeks ago, the team announced Friday.

Bader, 26, went over a guardrail and rolled down a steep embankment on stage 5 of the World Tour race, suffering a fractured vertebra, a broken collarbone, a broken scapula, and, more seriously, a compressed carotid artery, which supplies blood to the brain.

Bader was rushed to a hospital in Bilbao, where doctors put him in an artificial coma and inserted a stent into his carotid artery. After receiving good news on Tuesday that the sedation had been lifted and that he had subsequently shown signs of brightness, the team did not issue a follow-up report until Friday. On Friday, the team wrote that "thanks to the generous care of the medical staff, the recovery is progressing steadily," adding that "next week Milano will return to the Netherlands for the next steps."

Ryder's father, Patrick, was in Spain during the ordeal and gave an update to the Dutch regional newspaper Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant (opens in new tab).

"He has started rehab and the outlook is good," Patrick Bader said. 'He has started his rehabilitation and the outlook is good.' Milan even asked him about his teammates right after he woke up."

"He was very happy to see us,"

"He was very happy to see us.

Ryder's Instagram story (opens in new tab) was updated on Saturday morning with an image from the Dutch national team's 10th place finish in the mountain bike competition at the Tokyo Olympics. The post referred to his repatriation, announced by Jumbo Visma, as "the first time a rider has been repatriated to the Netherlands.

Bader's compatriot Amy Peeters (SD Worx) fell during the national team camp in January and has been in a coma ever since; the BBC posted an update on Peeters two weeks ago and team director Danny Stam said her situation was still uncertain. He stated.

"We still don't know exactly what we can expect and what we can't expect. Doctors are saying," Stamm said, "that unless she does what they tell her to do, she is not awake and can't be woken up."