Bogota: Former Champion Tour de France Egen Benan, who said he was “almost dead” after crashing into the bus during the running training, was dismissed from the hospital on Sunday, two weeks after a horror accident.
The 25-year-old violated 11 ribs, knee caps, thigh bones, two spinal bones and thumbs, and stabbed the two lungs, in the accident of January 24 while driving with teammate Ineos Grenadiers near Bogota.
He underwent five operating attacks.
“For me, just live like a rebirth,” Bernal Week said in a video sent to the media after leaving the University of La Sabana clinic, on the outskirts of Bogota.
A photo posted by a clinic shows Bernal wearing a protective neck brace and flanked by two medical staff members he “thanked” because of giving him this “second chance”.
We are happy to report that @ Tanganennal has run out of the hospital today 🤗Egan will now return to Begi …
https://t.co/qvv6K4MCZF-INOS GRENADERS (@ineosgrenadiers) 1644170941000 “At one point I was preparing a tour De France, I gave my time trial (training), and the next second I fought for my life, “he said.
The clinic added: “He can now continue the rehabilitation process.” On Thursday, Bernal has remembered the accident.
“I almost died but I thank God for this test,” he said.
Egenan Bernal on Instagram: “11 ribs.
Thigh bones.
Ball together.
T5-T6.
Odontoid star racer in Ineos and new age 22 won the Tour de France in 2019.
He is the winner of the powerful Giro D’Italia, and is on Pre-season training for Tour de France tilt when he hit the Andean mountains nearby house.
Traffic police said he was “very focused” so he did not hear a warning scream from his teammate that the bus in front of him had stopped.