2023-06-30 18:00:30
On January 24, 2022 Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) was training with his time trial bike in Colombia. With the usual silhouette of a cyclist, head bowed and pulses at maximum level, he crashed alone into a coach parked on the side of the road during a training session with his team. Like a child who plays with his favorite toy up and down and smashes it against the floor. The medical report after the accident was heartbreaking: 11 broken ribs, also the femur and kneecap; fracture in the T5 and T6 vertebrae and two perforations in the lungs. Bernal, winner of the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia, spent 9 days in the UCI after the worst accident of his life, where he almost lost his life. The doctors who treated him wondered how it was possible for him to be alive.
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