The winner of the Tour de France 2019 was operated on multiple fractures on Monday in Bogota. He had to participate in the tour of Provence in February.
Le Monde with AFP
The Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal, winner of the Tour de France in 2019, was victim on Monday, January 24, a serious accident at the training and was operated after suffering several fractures and a “thoracic trauma”, Declared the clinic that took care of near Bogota.
According to the last medical report, the 25-year cyclist was hospitalized due to a fracture of the femur, patella and thoracic trauma, indicated in a statement the University Clinic of Sabana where he is neat.
“We hope that the surgery of the ongoing spine can be realized in the best way,” adds the press release without giving more details on the severity of wounds. The rider “presents a polytrauma and must undergo surgery in the coming hours,” originally explained in a communiqué doctors, according to his team Ineos.
The accident occurred in the town of Gachanipa, nearly thirty kilometers north of the Colombian capital when the cyclist hit the back of a bus stopped, explained the Colombian authorities. On photographs broadcast by local media, we can see the runner extended on the ground, facing the back of a bus and surrounded by his teammates.
Expected on the Tour de France This summer
A few days ago, the rider complained about the imprudence of a motorist who had failed to overthrow his teammates and himself during a training exit, in a video posted on his networks Social.
The title champion of the GIRO had planned to resume the competition in France on the occasion of the tour of Provence, from 10 to 13 February. He then had to participate in particular in the UAE Tour (the Tour des Emirates), from 20 to 26 February, for a taste of the Tour de France which had to see him attempt to compete with Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), Winner of the big loop in 2020 and 2021.
Shortly before celebrating 25 e Anniversary on January 13, Bernal has formalized the extension of his long-term contract with the INEOS team, until the end of 2026. He had confirmed in the same way. Time The priority given in 2022 to the number one cycling test: “I really want to go back to the tour. I jumped last year because of the Giro, I have the impression that it’s been a long time since I n have not been on the turn. I am very enthusiastic. “
The 2022 edition of the Tour will begin the first of July with a second-to-the-spot stage in Copenhagen and will end on the Champs-Elysées in Paris.