Egan Bernal returned to compete in Denmark seven months after his serious accident

Finally. Egan Bernal You will feel like a cyclist again. The Colombian runner included in the formation that his team, Ineos Grenadierswill be put into contention this Tuesday at back to denmarkfrom August 16 to 20, inclusive Omar Fraile, Michal Kwiatkowski, Jhonatan Narvaez, Magnus Sheffield, Ben Swift and Geraint Thomas. It was Egan Bernal’s return to competition seven months after the serious accident he suffered on January 24 while training in his native Colombia after colliding with a bus.

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“After a final examination this weekend, the Ineos Grenadiers medical team allowed the Colombian to continue the competition,” he said in a press release from the British team, to which the runner himself added: “After what happened in January, it was the moment I’d been waiting for, to run again with my teammates. I can’t stress how hard the last eight months have been for me, both physically and mentally. That day and my journey from then will be a part of me forever, I will never forget it,” said the Colombian cyclist.

Since miraculously getting back on the bike just two months after his serious accident and seeing his rapid evolution, Egan has commented several times that he could return to Tour of Burgos and some have even seen La Back this year. He had already hinted in the face of many rumors that he would join the Italian classics at the end of the year, until this Monday his return was made official from this Tuesday in Denmark.

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A news that can be defined as a miracle, if one remembers the severity of an accident that almost killed him, and as a result of which he was operated on several times for multiple fractures (femur, patella, vertebrae), and that he himself said that he “had a 95% chance of becoming paraplegic and almost lost his life”.