Stig Broeckx in vegetative state with severe brain damage

Stig Broeckx (Lotto Soudal)

Stig Broeckx (Lotto Soudal) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)

Stig Broeckx has suffered severe brain damage as a result of a crash involving a motorcycle at the Baloise Belgium Tour last month, and is now in a vegetative state as doctors have so far been unable get him out of a coma. 

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