Kai Reus has a hemorrhage on the left side of the back of his skull. He also broke his left collarbone and three ribs on the right side of his chest. Reus immediately received surgery in a hospital in Grenoble on Thursday evening. Reus was kept in an artificial coma but treating doctors were planning to awake him from his coma later today . A CT-scan made last night showed that there are no further complications.

Kai Reus was in the Alps to train and to participate in Monday's Rabo-clinic on La Plagne. He left the hotel on Thursday morning at eleven for an individual training. A search was started when he still had not returned to the hotel in the evening. It became clear at ten past eight that Kai was in a hospital in Grenoble and that he was receiving emergency surgery.

Even though Reus was conscious when he arrived at the hospital, it is not clear yet what happened exactly. Dion van Bommel, one of the team doctors of the Rabobank team, is with Reus. Van Bommel was also in Tignes.

Kai Reus made the switch from the Rabobank Continental Team to the Rabobank ProTeam in July 2006. Reus was road world champion (juniors) in 2004 and in 2006 he won the Espoirs (U23) edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège.