Egan Bernal's early season did not go as planned but a broken collarbone at training proved to be a blessing in disguise for the Team Ineos ...
VAL THORENS, France: Egan Bernal's early season did not go as planned but a broken collarbone at training proved to be a blessing in disguise for the Team Ineos climber, who is poised to become the first Colombian to win the Tour de France on Sunday.
"Since last October we planned for the Giro, thinking about the Giro all the time," Bernal, who is leading Thomas by one minute 11 seconds going into the mostly-processional final stage to Paris, explained on Saturday. "At some point, I thought about not doing the Giro but the Tour, but eventually the Giro was the goal," the 22-year-old said."But sadly I broke my collarbone. Maybe that happened for a reason and now I'm about to win the Tour de France, it's really incredible.
Riding a Giro-Tour double would have been an impossible feat for a 22-year-old, with the last rider to manage to win both races the same season being Marco Pantani in 1998.
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