Seven months ago the life of the Colombian Egan Bernal (Ineos), champion of the Tour de France 2019 and Giro d’Italia 2021was hanging by a thread but this Tuesday the happiness of his family and the country is capitalized because he returned to the bicycle after winning the toughest test he has had to face in his 25 years of life.
(In context: Egan Bernal was clear and accurate when talking about his return to racing)
Five surgeries and seven months of recovery were necessary to allow Bernal to walk and compete in the tour of denmarkthe first highly demanding race in which the man from Zipaquirá participates after the accident that almost left him a paraplegic.
Egan Bernal gave his first pedal strokes after the accident he suffered on January 24, when fulfilling his work as a domestique in the first stage of the Tour of Denmark, which took place this Tuesday between Allerød and Køge, won by Olav Fooij.
That’s how it went for Egan
The second stage of the Tour of Denmark was a 12.2 km time trial that took place in Assens.
Egan Bernal had an excellent presentation, doing his route on a very narrow road and taking the curves very well.
The Colombian had a time of 14:52, with an average speed of 49.2 km/h. He finished in 65th place
Bernal lost 1:17 to the winner, who was Magnus Sheffield, who surprised everyone and stopped the clock at 13:35,
and donned the blue jersey of race leader. The young North American cyclist (20 years old) beat the Danish Mattias Skjelmose Jensen (Trek) by 3 seconds and the Frenchman Christophe Laporte (Jumbo) by 6.
Thanks to this victory, Sheffield snatches the lead from the Dutch Olav Kooij, winner of the first stage sprint.
Geraint Thomasmeanwhile, set a time of 13:50.
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