Egan Bernal is ready to bear spinal surgical procedure and stays in intensive care in Colombia after crashing right into a parked bus final week and sustaining accidents that almost killed him.
The 25-year-old underwent rounds of surgical procedure within the speedy aftermath of the accident – docs labored to restore fractures in his proper leg and kneecap in addition to a collapsed lung.
And now the 2019 Tour de France winner wants an extra operation on his again, which Marca stories can be carried out on Wednesday.
The hospital mentioned the intervention will give Bernal, who posted an upbeat message on Instagram on the weekend, the perfect likelihood of rehabilitation.
Egan Bernal – who posted this image from hospital on the weekend – will bear spinal surgical procedure on Wednesday and stays in intensive care after crashing right into a parked bus
Images of the speedy aftermath of Bernal’s crash emerged on social media final week
Photos confirmed a big dent at the back of the bus that Bernal reportedly collided with
The Spanish publication Marca says the surgical procedure is of the cervical backbone and quotes the hospital the place Bernal is being handled as saying: ‘This intervention will favor his rehabilitation course of.
‘We advance with the affected person in all his restoration processes, assured in his immediate enchancment. We can be reporting the postoperative evolution of the athlete on the time the process is completed.’
On Saturday, Bernal – the present Giro d’Italia champion – took to Instagram with an replace for his followers from his hospital mattress.
‘Having had a 95 per cent likelihood of changing into a paraplegic and almost shedding my life doing what I like to do most, immediately I need to thank God, @clinicaunisabana, to all its specialists for doing the not possible, to my household, @mafemotas, associates and all of you to your needs,’ he wrote.
‘I’m nonetheless within the ICU ready for extra surgical procedures however trusting in God every little thing can be high-quality.’
Studies in Colombia final week mentioned Bernal had struck a parked bus whereas using at excessive pace near his residence in Bogota, Colombia with photos exhibiting the Ineos Grenadiers rider receiving therapy subsequent to a heavily-dented car.
The British group issued their very own assertion on Monday night which didn’t give particulars of Bernal’s accidents, however did say he had been aware when transferred to hospital by the group’s medical employees.
‘He’s steady and present process additional evaluation,’ the assertion learn.
Bernal received the 2019 version of the Tour de France for Crew Ineos, ending forward of Nice Britain’s Geraint Thomas within the last classification
Bernal received the Giro d’Italia for the Ineos Grenadiers group final 12 months, his second Grand Tour win
Whereas nearly all of the Grenadiers squad trains in Europe, Bernal had remained in Colombia to organize for the upcoming season, using alongside a small group of team-mates that features former Giro d’Italia champion Richard Carapaz.
Bernal, who took his second Grand Tour victory in final 12 months’s Giro, signed a brand new five-year contract with the Grenadiers earlier this month, and had set out his ambitions to focus on the Tour once more this summer season.
A number of riders and groups had been fast to put up messages of assist to Bernal on social media.
Bernal’s team-mate Tao Geoghegan Hart, the 2020 Giro winner, wrote: ‘We’re all hoping you might be okay @Eganbernal. So scary to learn this information. A tragic reminder how harmful our coaching will be.’
