World champion wakes up from coma after 4 months

Dutch cycling champion Amy Pieters, this Thursday, April 28, has woken up from a coma she had been in since last December, Report informs, citing EuroWeekly News.

She had suffered a fall from her bike while training with the national track team from the Netherlands in the Alicante municipality of Calpe on the Costa Blanca in Spain.

A statement released by the Dutch Team SD Worx on Thursday explained that the 30-year-old athlete “can communicate a little non-verbally, and recognizes people, understands what is said, and can do more and more activities”.

At this stage, it is still too early for doctors to make a diagnosis of the exact medical damage Pieters may have suffered from the brain injury.

Riding alongside Kirsten Wild, the phenomenal rider, recently became the Madison world champion. That was her third win in that event in the last three years. Pieters was also victorious in Belgium last year, in the Nokere Koerse held in Flanders, as well as winning the Dutch national road race event.