in the family of Egan Bernal around happiness.
This Friday the champion of the Tour de France-2019 and the Giro d’Italia-2021 He made a post for which he is trending on social media.
“Crossing the capital. We are super excited to be my mother’s last chemo … ”, the Colombian shared on his Twitter account, accompanied by three images in which he is seen smiling, and hugging his mother Flor Gomez, who months ago suffered from breast cancer.
“And we were surprised by the empathy of the people in Bogotá… Everyone whistled when they saw the sign,” added Bernal, referring to the message he wrote on the rear windshield of his car, which was also decorated with balloons. “Today, my last chemo.”
On May 13, Flor Gómez announced that she was starting chemotherapies, a process that, as she confessed, was hard, but in which she always showed courage and hope.
“Just thank you Heavenly Father and each of the people who gave me words of encouragement and support at the time I needed it most,” Gómez said in his account. Instagram.
“Mom to many more years,” added Egan; while his brother Ronald, also a cyclist, wrote: “I am very happy to see that my mom overcame breast cancer. She taught us that we must not give up no matter how difficult the road is. I love you with my life mommy, from the beginning I knew we were going to get out of all this well.
Bernal, for his part, is in his last stage of recovery after undergoing knee surgery recently, after the serious accident he suffered last January, in which his life was at risk.