Resiliant Egan Bernal reportedly already set for racing return, just weeks after collarbone break at Clásica Jaén
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Egan Bernal's career has been one consistently plagued by bad luck and nasty crashes over recent years. After the former Tour de France winner had shown some of his best form in a long while in early 2025, taking a pair of Colombian national titles, disaster struck again last month at the Clásica Jaén Paraiso Interior.
With hopes high of the INEOS Grenadiers star continuing his strong early season form, a nasty slide out on the gravel resulted in a broken collarbone, forcing the 28-year-old to suffer another setback. If one thing has been learned about Bernal over the recent years of difficulty though, it's that the Colombian is incredibly resilient and he is already proving that yet again.
Having posted himself climbing the Col d'Eze just a week on from suffering his collarbone injury, Bernal is reportedly already being lined up for a return to competitive racing at the upcoming Volta a Catalunya (March 24-30). "Sources told us that Egan Bernal INEOS Grenadiers is recovering well after his crash and broken collarbone at Clasica Jean," reports Ciro Scognamiglio of La Gazzetta dello Sport. "Next race for him? Not decided 100% yet, but at this stage the most likely option is Volta Catalunya."
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- "He apparently thought it was completely fine." Nothing broken and no concussion, that's as completely fine as it gets in cyclingvappaxbipmv14-03-2025
- Better safe than sorry. At least his injuries are a lot less severe than they were last year.
santiagobenites14-03-2025 - Well spotted :-)Mistermaumau14-03-2025
- One thing Jonas Vingegaard has in common with Hinault is that they are moaners, although I couldn't see Jonas giving a demonstrator a right hander!Suipedali14-03-2025
- They are surprisingly rare on the pro circuit, around our area, one in four races finishes of with a really steep 500m climb at the end.Mistermaumau14-03-2025
- Give him an uphill sprint, then he may win against pure sprinters.
KerisVroom14-03-2025 - Sad if confirmed but like Tadej, he’ll be happy it didn’t turn out to be a disaster. Curious to know how it happened uphill.Mistermaumau13-03-2025
- Jonas anandons tomorrow. He was saying farewell to teammates and staff at the finish lineCaralladas13-03-2025
- And considering the details coming out, I’d like to hear from all those mocking his annoyance of having to ride in yesterday’s weather, don’t think they’d have ridden to the end that way with a probable broken hand. Also, he was only one of a very large number equally critical that NOBODY criticised, including Jorgenson, Sheffield and the peleton spokesman. O’connor was probably the most upset by it all but doesn’t seem to have spoken about it?Mistermaumau13-03-2025
- I was wondering what really happened, if he was just not yet peaking at this time of the year, or if this just wasn't going to be his year, but apparently the accident affected him.Ride197413-03-2025