After five operations and 'almost dying', cyclist Egan Bernal leaves hospital
Tour de France champion Egan Bernal, who said he "almost died" after smashing into a bus during a training run, was discharged from hospital on Sunday, two weeks after the horror crash. The 25-year-old broke 11 ribs, a knee cap, a thigh bone, two vertebrae and a thumb, as well as puncturing both lungs, in the January 24 accident while riding with his Ineos Grenadiers teammates near Bogota. He underwent five bouts of surgery. "For me, just being alive is like a rebirth," Bernal said Sunday in a video sent to the media after his discharge from the University Clinic of La Sabana, on the outskirts of Bogota. A photograph posted by the clinic showed Bernal wearing a protective neck brace and flanked by two members of the medical staff whom he "thanked" for giving him this "second chance".
