The leader of the Ineos team, Egan Bernal, collided with a public transport vehicle, near the El Roble tollbooth, in Gachancipá, while training with part of his team on the roads of Cundinamarca.
The report of the Highway Police that attended the incident reported that “Egan Arley Bernal Gómez, 25 years old, was injured with multiple lacerations. He was referred to the Sabana University clinic in the municipality of Chía”.
The British team issued a first statement. “Bernal, who is at a team training camp near his hometown, was escorted to the hospital by team medical personnel and was conscious upon arrival. He is stable and in the process of further evaluation, ”said the first statement from Ineos.
Sources close to the Colombian rider confirmed to the journalist Héctor Urrego a femur fracture with kneecap compromise for the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia champion.
According to the official report on the rider’s state of health, Bernal will undergo surgery. “At the moment he has been assessed in an interdisciplinary way by specialists. According to the results found, he must undergo surgery in the next few hours due to polytrauma: cervical and thoracic trauma, closed chest trauma, musculoskeletal trauma and trauma to the lower limbs. At the moment he has hemodynamic stability, ”said the University Clinic of La Sabana.
This was reported by Hector Urrego of Mundo Ciclistico in Bogota.
Buses in Colombia stop wherever there are passengers waiting to be picked up, not necessarily at an “official” bus stop. Apparently this bus stopped just ahead of where he was riding.
His surgery went well but he still has a long road ahead.
