Egan Bernal: I thought about retirement after life-threatening accident

SCHAUINSLAND GERMANY AUGUST 27 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez of Colombia and Team INEOS Grenadiers prior to the 37th Deutschland Tour 2022 Stage 3 a 1489km stage from Freiburg to Schauinsland 1200m DeineTour on August 27 2022 in Schauinsland Germany Photo by Stuart FranklinGetty Images
Egan Bernal rode the first four days of last fall's Deutschland Tour but did not finish (Image credit: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)

Egan Bernal has recognised that he thought about retirement during the long process of recovery from his life-threatening training accident early in 2022.

However, the Colombian cycling star has said that seeing how other people had managed to pull through equally challenging situations and reconstruct their lives afterwards persuaded him to continue in the sport.

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.