Stig Broeckx at the 2015 Giro d'Italia
Nine months after being seriously injured in a collision with a motorbike at the Belgium Tour, and two months after coming out of a coma, Lotto-Soudal rider Stig Broeckx is now responding to conversation according to team manager Marc Sergeant.
Sergeant said that he had visited Broeckx in hospital in the town of Overpelt earlier in February, and that the 26-year-old had been making good progress over the past months.
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