Egan Bernal largely healed after severe fall

The vertebral fractures have healed well, said Bernal's doctor Gustavo Uriza on Wednesday in a video conference of the National Academy of Medicine in Colombia. From a medical point of view, the former Tour-de-France winner could take part in competitions again. Bernal wants to return to Europe in the coming days and resume training there. The driver of the British team Ineos drove into a standing bus at the end of January during training in Colombia. The Giro winner had suffered several broken bones, including eleven ribs, two vertebrae, a thigh and a kneecap. In addition, both lungs were perforated. Bernal himself had his chance of not being paraplegic to just five percent.

Only about three weeks later he trained again on the home trainer.