Cycling: back on a home trainer, Egan Bernal is making great progress after his serious accident

Three weeks after his accident, Egan Bernal is recovering faster than the information distilled during the days following his accident led him to fear.

While he had been close to death, he now seems to be doing much better, as shown in a video posted on his Instagram account where he is back with a stationary bike.

The Ineos Grenadiers team announces that the Colombian, seriously injured last month in training, has already "made great progress" in his rehabilitation.

"Our medical team has not yet defined a precise chronology and we still do not know when he will be able to return to his road bike," said the Ineos Grenadiers team in a press release.

For the moment, he will continue treatment in Colombia and will only return to Europe once his progress has reached a sufficient level.

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On January 24, Egan Bernal hit a bus while training on his time trial bike in Colombia.

Under the violence of the shock, the winner of the Tour de France 2019 fractured his femur, kneecap, two vertebrae and several ribs.

At the hospital, the doctors had told him that he had "a 95% chance of becoming a paraplegic".

Operated several times, Bernal was released from the hospital on February 6 and published a video a few days later in which he redid his first steps wearing a cervical collar and lumbar support.

After starting to walk again and then doing the home trainer, the Colombian wants to be positive even if his downtime is still unknown and will necessarily be long.

He also took the opportunity to post an inspiring message: “Never let someone tell you that you can't do something.

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