Egan Bernal will be at the Giro d'Italia 2025. First the challenge at Vingegaard in Catalonia

Rome, 17 March 2025 - The start of the season of Egan Bernal It's really been a rollercoaster, much like his entire career so far: double national title, in line and against the clock, and then back to victory after 1348 days of fasting and, above all, after the ordeal following the accident during training January 2022, but also suffered a new fall, the one that occurred at Classic Jaén Paraiso Interior, with attached fracture to the clavicle who immediately put the 2025 uphill. The Colombian, who has actually been through worse, does not lack strength of mind, and so his return to the saddle was quicker than expected, even less than a week after the injury: the prelude to the return to the racing ranks, with the Giro d'Italia 2025 in the viewfinder.

Bernal at the Giro d'Italia 2025

After weeks of speculation and exactly one month after the last accident, the official confirmations have arrived: the rider of the Ineos Grenadiers, intercepted by the microphones of Espn, announced his return to the Corsa pink after the first and only participation in the report, that of 2021, which ended with victory. Even before, Bernal will attach the number to the back at the end of the month, at Volta a Catalunya 2025: I start the 24 March and lasts a week to begin testing one's strengths even against rivals of a certain weight, such as could be jonas vingegaard, whose participation is however in doubt after the fall at Paris-Nice 2025. Then for the Colombian a long period of preparation untill 9 May when, and now we can say it with certainty, it will be at the start of Durres to embellish the startlist of the Giro d'Italia 2025. "I didn't lose much time in training. After the accident, and practically three days after the operation to reduce the fracture in my collarbone, I was already back on the bike training, not without some concern on the part of the doctors": these are the statements of Bernal, which to Corsa pink will therefore be able to show off both of his national champion jerseys, with the hope of perhaps having to take them off soon to move on to other shades. The road from here to May is still long, but after having overcome this latest setback the class of '97 is already fired up. "Now I feel very good in training. My numbers are still very good, even if my body still has to completely get rid of the anesthesia and the drugs I took to recover from the accident". A process that, unfortunately, Bernal knows well, as well as his Ineos Grenadiers, which in turn started well 2025: Filippo Gana climbs onto the second step of the podium at Tirreno-Adriatico 2025, Besides win the inaugural time trial and to apply for a leading role in the Milan-Sanremo 2025, and Magnus Sheffield closes with a great high note Paris-Nice 2025. Then, there is Bernal, called to the umpteenth rebirth of his career: this time with his sights already set on his beloved Giro d'Italia.

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