Bernal poses with the medical chart that has performed up to seven operations on him before being discharged. /
Cycling
Doctors from the University Clinic of La Sabana discharge the Colombian and assure that “all his injuries are stable”
Egan Bernal was discharged this Sunday and will continue on an outpatient basis to recover from the accident suffered on January 24 on a road near Bogotá while he was training and which almost cost him his life, according to the “pleased” doctors at the Clinic. Savannah College. The medical part explained that Bernal is “in the third phase of the trauma, ready to start his rehabilitation process. He has no complications and all his injuries are stable and in the process of recovery. The University Clinic of La Sabana also disclosed photographs in which Bernal appears standing next to the medical staff that has treated him since the day of the accident.
On Thursday, Egan Bernal said on social networks that he had “almost 20 broken bones” in the accident in which he almost lost his life and assured that he underwent his “last major surgery and it seems that everything went well.” The cyclist, who collided at high speed with a bus on the highway that goes from Bogotá to Tunja, at the height of the municipality of Gachancipá, listed his injuries: «11 Ribs. Femur. Ball joint. T5-T6. Odontoids. metacarpal a thumb I dropped a tooth. Perforation of both lungs. I almost killed myself, but you know what? I am grateful to God for putting me through this test,” said the Colombian, gesturing with his strutted hands, and added: “Now to recover and do this again… I’M BACK!! And let’s rock.
Jakobsen adds and continues
On the sports page, Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step) added his second win of the week to the sprint and confirmed that he will be one of the men to beat in the mass arrivals of this course. The ‘train’ worked perfectly for him, with a stellar Remco Evenepoel, who made a key relief a kilometer and a half from the finish line. The Russian Aleksandr Vlasov, a newcomer to the Bora-Hansgrohe ranks, won the first stage race of his record.
For his part, Frenchman Benjamin Thomas (Cofidis) won the final victory at the Bessèges Star (France), his first professional title in a stage race, topped off with an 11-kilometre individual time trial ending at the Alès hermitage in the one won by the Italian Filippo Ganna (Ineos), double world champion against the clock, with his usual elegance.
