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Egan Bernal (at the 2020 Tour de France)
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Former Tour de France winner Egan Bernal is about to make a comeback as a professional cyclist.
The 25-year-old Colombian is scheduled to start at the Tour of Denmark (August 16-20) and return after his serious fall, as his team Ineos-Grenadiers announced on Monday.
“This is the moment I've been waiting for: to ride with my teammates again.
The day and the journey since will always be a part of me.
You'll never forget that," said Bernal, who won the world's biggest cycling race in 2019.
The driver of the British team drove into a stationary bus during training in Colombia at the end of January.
The Giro winner suffered several broken bones, including eleven ribs, two vertebrae, a thigh and a kneecap.
In addition, both lungs were perforated.
Bernal himself had put his chances of not being paraplegic at only five percent.
He spent two weeks in the hospital and underwent a total of five surgeries.
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