Twenty days after his horrible crash during the sixth stage of the Tour de Suisse, Mauricio Soler is still into the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Colombian rider is being accompanied by his wife Patricia and a brother of her, and evolves slowly but steadily from all his injuries.

Movistar Team doctor Alfredo Zúñiga reports on the latest improvements on Soler’s condition: “His status is getting better very slowly, but he keeps taking small steps and the doctors are thinking of taking him out of the Intensive Care Unit. Due to this, we have started to all arrangements to take him back to Pamplona (Spain). He’s not into coma anymore, but is kept under a high drowsiness. He spends most of the time asleep, but when he has moments of lucidity, he obeys to easy orders. The checks over him still don’t remark on any injury at peripheral or medular levels, but this is something we can’t rule out at the moment. The lung problems are completely under control and he doesn’t need artificial respiration, he breathes by himself. The rest of his injuries are also going through a positive progress. It’s going to be a long, slow process yet, so some weeks can go by with no major news.”