the colombian cyclist Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadier) He underwent surgery to remove the nails and the screw that had been placed for the fracture of his right patella after the accident he suffered eight months ago when he was training on the outskirts of Bogotá.
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“I did a knee arthroscopy, which is to put a camera inside the knee to look at the joint, I confirmed that the fracture was fully consolidated. that was thursday“, doctor Carlos Gutiérrez, who operated on him at the Clinic of the University of La Sabana, told Efe.
The doctor, son of former cyclist Manuel Ignacio Gutiérrez who won the 1981 RCN Classic, He said: “I confirmed that his menisci, his ligaments, were all healthy (…) and after that I removed some nails, a screw and a wire that I had put in for the patella fracture.”
Gutiérrez explained that the surgery was scheduled and that what is sought is for Bernal, champion of the 2019 Tour de France and the 2021 Giro d’Italia, to feel better and better.
“He’s gonna be better than these days when he was riding because this material can sometimes cause discomfort and pain in the knee,” he said.
The doctor added: “We had no problem during the process, it was short and it turned out well“and that what follows is healing and later on you can do a little rehabilitation so that you can get back on the bike again.
Bernal returned to competition on August 16 running the Tour of Denmark, the Tour of Germany and the Giro de Toscana but in all three races he abandoned. Later he was in the Coppa Sabatini, in which he finished in 28th place.
The cyclist suffered the accident on January 24 when he collided at high speed against a bus that had stopped on the highway that goes from Bogotá to Tunja, at the height of the municipality of Gachancipá.
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Bernal was then taken to the Sabana Clinic in which multiple injuries were discovered that they forced him to go through the operating room six times because he suffered fractures in some vertebrae, the right femur and patella, and in several ribs.
He also suffered a perforation. lung as a result of shock injuries that had him on the verge of death but his recovery has been so fast that almost seven months later he was able to run again.
