Lotto Soudal`s Jelle Wallays has explained how the news of teammate Bjorg Lambrecht`s Tour de Pologne crash over his race radio brought back memories of Stig Broeckx`s crash three years ago. Broeckx has been left trying to recover from severe brain damage, while Lambrecht died on Monday as a result of his injuries. `The news of Bjorg`s fall came through the earpiece. You heard there was panic, and I immediately knew it was serious,` Wallays said on Belgian website sporza.be on Tuesday. `There was a feeling of déjà vu for me, because I have already experienced it all with Stig Broeckx.` Wallays was at the 2016 Baloise Belgium Tour when his Lotto Soudal teammate Broeckx crashed as a result of two motorbikes colliding. Broeckx suffered severe brain damage, and was in a coma for more than six months, emerging in December 2016, since when he`s been working on his recovery.ADVERTISEMENT On that occasion, the Lotto Soudal team pulled out of the race while safety questions were raised, but the team chose to ride stage 4 of the Tour de Pologne on Tuesday in memory of Lambrecht, whose crash is still being investigated. The decision as to whether to continue at the Tour de Pologne beyond Tuesday`s stage will be left up to the individual riders, the Lotto Soudal team has said. `Stig is still alive; he can still laugh and chat,` said Wallays. `Unfortunately, that isn`t the case for Bjorg.
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