2022 Unbound Gravel 200 champion Ivar Slik was taken to hospital on Tuesday in Fayetteville, Arkansas, after he crashed right into a motorized vehicle whereas on a coaching experience in close by Bentonville.
Fellow Dutch cyclists Thijs Zonneveld, Nikki Terpstra and Jasper Ockeloen had been driving with Slik on the time. Zonneveld, in collaboration with Ockeloen and Terpstra, posted to Instagram on Wednesday that Slik “is doing nicely underneath the circumstances” after a analysis by docs at Washington Regional Hospital confirmed “a extreme concussion, a damaged nostril” in addition to cuts and contusions.
“Yesterday, our good friend Ivar Slik crashed right into a automotive throughout a coaching experience round Bentonville, Arkansas. He misplaced consciousness and was taken to a hospital, the place he was identified with a extreme concussion, a damaged nostril, a laceration to the cranium and plenty of bruises.
“He is doing nicely now, contemplating the circumstances. The docs are hopeful, he’s awake, he talks and strikes his entire physique. The subsequent days, he might be staying within the hospital to ensure that him to be monitored intently. We are very glad with the assistance he will get and has been given,” Zonneveld wrote on social in collaboration along with his two associates.
Slik was with three fellow Dutch cyclists, Zonneveld, Nikki Terpstra and Jasper Ockeloen, as they had been in northwest Arkansas getting ready for Unbound Gravel, going down in Emporia, Kansas on June 1.
The group of riders was half of a bigger Dutch contingency who had just lately competed at Gravel Locos in Texas on May 18, with Slik, Terpstra and Ockeloen ending within the prime 5 and Zonneveld seventeenth.
Slik was the primary European-based rider to win the elite males’s 200-mile gravel race in Kansas, doing so two years in the past from a four-rider dash on the end forward of US riders Keegan Swenson and Ian Boswell adopted by fellow Dutchman Laurens ten Dan in fourth.
Cyclingnews has reached out to representatives for Slik for an replace on his situation and is awaiting for a response. Dutch media retailers, together with Wielerflits and NHSport, additionally reported the incident, however no additional particulars had been out there.
