Fabio Jacobsen underwent five and a half hours of facial surgery overnight after a high-speed crash on the finish straight of the first stage of the Tour de Pollogne.

Jacobsen, the Dutch champion, remains in a coma in the intensive care unit in Sosnowiec. On Thursday morning, his Deceuninck-QuickStep team announced that his condition was stable and that the medical team would bring him out of his coma later that day. [Fabio underwent facial surgery during the night. His condition is now stable and doctors will try to wake Fabio up later today," the team said in a statement.

Jacobsen's parents and girlfriend traveled overnight from the Netherlands to be at the hospital in Sosnowiec. Jacobsen's Dečuninck-Quick-Step team opted to stay on for Thursday's second stage, the Tour de Pollogne, which runs from Opole to Zabrze.

Jacobsen was awarded the win after Dylan Groenewegen (Jumbo-Visma) was disqualified in the first stage for breaking off line in a sprint win and causing a group crash. The Jumbo-Visma team apologized an hour after the stage and admitted that such a crash "should not have happened."

Jacobsen was pushed into a barrier at the finish line in Katowice and was treated by roadside medical staff before being taken to an intensive care unit in nearby Sosnowiec. Speaking to naszosie.pl on Wednesday, the Tour de Pollogne race doctor described Jacobsen's injuries as "very serious" and "life-threatening," adding that he suffered "very serious head trauma, crushed palate and upper airway," and "massive bleeding" that made intubation difficult. He added that he was difficult to intubate.

Many riders fell in the crash, including Groenewegen himself and Marc Sarrault (Groupama-FDJ), who was forced to abandon the Tour de Pollogne after tearing a tendon in his shoulder.

A course-side official also suffered the impact of the crash and was taken to the hospital. Race director Cheslav Lang confirmed that the officer sustained a head injury and is now in stable condition.

The UCI issued a statement after the crash condemning Groenewegen's actions in the sprint, but did not mention the layout of the downhill finish straight in Katowice.

"Every year the same stupid downhill sprint in @Tour_de_Pologne. We don't need an 80km/h downhill finish!" Simon Geschke (CCC team) wrote on Twitter.