  It is known that a definably compact group G is an extension of a compact Lie
group L by a divisible torsion-free normal subgroup. We show that the o-minimal
higher homotopy groups of G are isomorphic to the corresponding higher homotopy
groups of L. As a consequence, we obtain that all abelian definably compact
groups of a given dimension are definably homotopy equivalent, and that their
universal cover are contractible.
