After a break of almost eight months: Bernal makes his racing comeback

The 25-year-old Colombian is set to start at the Tour of Denmark (16 to 20 August) and thus return after his serious crash, as his team Ineos-Grenadiers announced. "This is the moment I've been waiting for: To ride with my team-mates again. That day, and the journey since, will always be a part of me. It's something you'll never forget," said Bernal, who won the Tour of France in 2019 and the Tour of Italy two years later.

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Bernal involved in serious accident with bus

Bernal crashed into a stationary bus during training in Colombia at the end of January. He suffered several broken bones, including eleven ribs, two vertebrae, a thigh and a kneecap.

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Both lungs were also perforated. Bernal himself had put his chances of not being paralysed at just five percent. Only around three weeks later, he was already back on the exercise bike.

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