Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal (Ineos), winner of the 2021 Giro d’Italia, suffered a spectacular accident this Monday while training on a road near Bogotá and was taken to a hospital “with multiple lacerations.”
Bernal, also champion of the 2019 Tour de France, collided with a fleet on the highway that goes from Bogotá to the town of Gachancipá, in Cundinamarca (central Colombia), when the vehicle stopped abruptly to drop off a passenger, according to reports. the Traffic Police.
And a few minutes ago, the University Clinic of La Sabana issued an official statement after the evaluations of the case, after the fact.
Here is the medical report on Egan Bernal’s state of health, after the accident while training in the Gachancipá sector:
“The University Clinic of La Sabana is allowed to communicate to the public that the patient Egan Bernal Gómez was admitted to the emergency service, this morning, in an ambulance. At the moment he has been assessed in an interdisciplinary manner by specialists. According to the results found, he must undergo surgery in the next few hours due to polytrauma: cervical and thoracic trauma, closed chest trauma, musculoskeletal trauma and lower limb trauma.
“At the moment he presents hemodynamic stability. We hope that his clinical outcome is the best and we will be very attentive to inform you about his evolution”