The Amy Pieters Update Thread

[RedheadDane]

Yes, I know she's sadly not a pro anymore.
People have been posting updates about her situation various places around the forum, but I had started to think - and then Valanga expressed similar opinions - that Amy Pieters should have a dedicated thread.
So, here it is.

The most recent update is from a few days ago, and unfortunately it's not super uplifting news:

Summer 2023; update on the recovery of Amy Pieters

Her memory is short, very short. It is intensive and sometimes painful to realize that what Amy sees, experiences and experiences, is only short-lived.

amypieters.nl

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Hope they can find somewhere for her to continue her recovery, or what recovery there remains for her to achieve. Seems like she'll never recover even close to full faculties with the inability to speak and the memory issues sadly, makes you realise that even the likes of Juan Mauricio Soler were the lucky ones.

 

[Red Rick]

She's able to walk and cycle independently. Seems like physically she's doing pretty well all things considering

Amy Pieters kan zelfstandig lopen en ook weer fietsen

Goed nieuws: Amy Pieters kan zelfstandig lopen en ook weer fietsen. Dat heeft haar vriend Stefan Vreugdenhil aangegeven in een interview met het Noordhollands Dagblad. Praten lukt aan de andere kant nog niet voor Pieters. “Het is heel dubbel”, aldus Vreugdenhil. De laatste update omtrent de...

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She can't speak, struggles with language comprehension, and suffers from short term memory loss

 

[Red Rick]

Amy Pieters - or her representative - is suing SD Worx.

Seems that it's based on the legal technicality that cause she was on her 3rd contract it should be a permanent contract as per Dutch law. Pretty sure SD Worx paid out her contract until 2023 in full.

Seems to me like the sort of case where both employer and employee lose and where the legalese and insurance people make all the money

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Amy Pieters - or her representative - is suing SD Worx.

Seems that it's based on the legal technicality that cause she was on her 3rd contract it should be a permanent contract as per Dutch law. Pretty sure SD Worx paid out her contract until 2023 in full.

Seems to me like the sort of case where both employer and employee lose and where the legalese and insurance people make all the money

Probably just standard practice. In a lot of situations in order to get an insurance pay-out you have to sue someone. Back when I was young, there was a man who lost his leg in a freak accident with some orchard-machinery. He was the brother or son or something along the lines of the dude owning the business, but because of how insurance-companies work he had to sue his brother or dad in court, and only if he won and they lost insurance companies would pay-out.

Edit: reminds me of an American story of a woman having to sue her nephew because she broke her arm tripping over his skateboard. Insurance wouldn't pay out unless she sued him.

I feel bad for Amy, cause this one also hits close to home. There's a dude I play Pokémon Go with who had a same type of accident, we used to race together in Junior's and it's just so sad to see this now young adolescent be reduced to a shadow of his former self. He used to be in the class above me and score well in the 90s at school, then he crashed, hurt his head despite of his helmet and now I see him struggling to light a cigarette and he works for the city council removing weeds. In a way, he has more of a life than Amy, but I never had the balls to actually ask if he realises what he no longer can do.

 

[RedheadDane]

Seems that it's based on the legal technicality that cause she was on her 3rd contract it should be a permanent contract as per Dutch law. Pretty sure SD Worx paid out her contract until 2023 in full.

Just to clarify:
It's because she didn't - was unable to - specifically state that she was retiring, thus ending the contract?

 

[awavey]

Latest update on Amy, sounds like she'll never make a full recovery, but is able to live independently, albeit with some help/carers and ongoing physiotherapy, speech therapy, plus the legal case has been resolved, I doubt there will be any further news after this.

Amy Pieters update: Former SD Worx fider making physical progress, but full recovery no longer possible

Amy Pieters is making progress in her rehabilitation. Her former team, SD Worx-Protime, announced in a press release that the former cyclist is still working hard to live as independently as possibl...

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