The video is almost eight minutes long.
Does it show a small miracle?
Some believe that. The Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen uploaded the video to Instagram.
Jakobsen is a cyclist.
It begins with staccato images.
They depict one of the most horrific crashes in the history of road cycling.
It happened on August 5, 2020 at the first stage of the Tour of Poland.
A mass sprint of tremendous force on a slightly sloping home stretch in Katowice.
The best sprinters shot along elbow to elbow.
Tempo 80. Jakobsen was in front.
His compatriot Dylan Groenewegen almost next to him.
In a moment of great tension, the fuses blew at Groenewegen.
He pushed Jakobsen into the barrier.
The team doctor, one of the first responders, said in retrospect: "I thought Fabio would die on this road."
The drama of the accident is impressively documented on Jakobsen's video.
As the staccato of images dies down, the screen goes black.
An alarm clock rings.
Jakobsen opens his eyes.
He begins to tell.
He tells of the day when he almost died in Katowice.
The fact that it was the first big sprint after a long break caused by Corona.
About the fact that he has no memory of the last kilometer of the race, that he only knows everything from television pictures.
He tells that he was thrown off track by a competitor.
He doesn't give his name.
He calls him "a competitor who also comes from the Netherlands".
He tells how, after two days in a coma, he woke up in the intensive care unit of a Polish hospital, badly injured, without teeth, connected to machines.
About the doctors restoring his jaw with a bone from his pelvis.
That it took months for specialists to place dental implants in his jaw.
"Then I was happy," he says.
"I could eat an apple again, speak again." He could smile again.
He tells his fiancée and his family that they talked a lot about the accident;
They are now happier with everyday things, feel that moments together are more beautiful than before because they know how quickly everything can be lost.
Half a dozen surgeries
For Jakobsen it was first about survival, then about a painful period of wound healing.
They fixed his face with 130 stitches, half a dozen operations were necessary, then months in rehabilitation.
Would he ever be able to race again?
want to race?
Yes, he wanted it.
And he managed what some consider a small miracle.
Last year, eight months after the fall in Katowice, he returned to the peloton in the Tour of Turkey.
He improved from race to race and celebrated his first victory after the crash in July at the Tour de Wallonie.
In the following Tour of Spain he won three stages and the points classification.
He was back in the premier league of sprinters, a profession only open to the intrepid.
This season Jakobsen has already won a stage at Paris-Nice, the Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne race and two stages each of the Tour of Valencia and the Tour of Algarve.
This Saturday (start: 9.50 a.m. at Eurosport 2, from 1.30 p.m. also at Eurosport 1) he will appear again on a really big stage for the first time.
His team Quick Step nominated him for the Milan-Sanremo classic after World Champion Julian Alaphilippe dropped out.
The almost 300-kilometer journey along the Ligurian coast is considered one of the biggest one-day races because drivers of all stripes can win there.
Round drivers like Tour winner Tadej Pogacar, fast-paced all-rounders like Wout van Aert, but also sprinters like Caleb Ewan - and Fabio Jakobsen.