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Two weeks after the accident he suffered near Bogotá, which almost cost him his life, the Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal made real progress in his recovery after being discharged from the Clinic University of La Sabana and having taken his first steps.
Four days after the medical staff that treated him from the moment of the accident granted him permission to leave the clinic, Bernal, as he has accustomed us throughout this time, used his social networks to post a video in which he is seen walking towards a car.
This video that I had as Intention to calm his followers, ended up surprising everyone since it was expected that the current Giro d’Italia champion would not walk again for a few weeks.
Likewise, the champion of the Tour de France of 2019, made another publication on Instagram to thank his masseuse and friend, Cristian Alonso, who has been fundamental throughout his career and to a great extent. that he has progressed in his current recovery.
“’My masseur’, and in fact my friend, a trusted person and the one who has to put up with everything I have to say afterwards of each race, who lifts my spirits on hard days and often scolds me when I need it, has accompanied me at the height of my career and now in the most difficult moment, “said Bernal.
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He added that after five years of working together “what he has done for me is often priceless, because it is the small details of day to day that really make a difference”.
In that sense, he indicated that Alon he so he had the great gesture of staying in Colombia after the accident to support the athlete’s family and make sure that he did not lack anything when he left the medical institution.
For Bernal, the fact of being alive is like “being born again”, at least that’s how he described it last Sunday. It should be remembered that the accident he suffered in the past 17 in January, it was while he was training for the Tour de France that he intended to defend his title.
That day the runner collided at high speed with a bus on the highway that goes from Bogotá to Tunja, near the municipality of Gachancipá, when the vehicle had stopped, impact which caused fractures in the femur and right knee, in vertebrae and in eleven ribs, among other injuries.
The cyclist from 19 years has recalled that he had “almost 20 broken bones” in the accident in which he almost lost his life.
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