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Sounds awful. Gutted for him. Hope he recovers well.

Pictures doing the round of the back of a bus that he must have hit very hard.

There were stories about sketchy near misses at the Ineos camp in Colombia last week

That does look like a lot of damage... jesus

Really crap news, I was excited to see him race the Slovenians at the tour this year. Very likeable guy. Hope he recovers fully.

It’s really thrown open third place

Empathy is not one of your strong points then.

From the picture I've seen, it appears he was on a tt bike. Makes you think of the previous horrific training crashes of pidcock and froome.

With all the caveats around believing stuff that has been translated on twitter, this sounds awful for Bernal.

https://twitter.com/nealrogers/status/1485814045848457217?s=20

It’s not a question of when he’ll come back but if he’ll come back at the moment.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TourDeJose/status/1485860903723704323

Sounds positive from a general health perspective. As andy says long way to go. 🤞

Fingers crossed for the guy, sounds like it was an even worse crash than froomes.

Some reports that this is a career ending crash, hoping it’s not the case.

Summary of injuries and medical procedures so far, this is from Colombia's leading broadsheet (El Tiempo), page Google translated.

Grief. That’s bad. Wishing him a full recovery

Struggling to imagine the mental strength required going through this so early in a career

In lighter news, Rog’s been cultivating his goatee. Maybe just winter vibes, but looks to be a few in the peloton now. Since JuJu took the stripes?

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To all our shame her crash didn't even get a mention here, unlike Bernal's, and it sounds a lot more devastating
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/amy-pieters-remains-unconscious-but-stable-one-month-after-crash-in-spain/

Doomed columbian training camp: Brandon Rivera is in the same hospital as Bernal now with fractured and dislocated elbow and AC joint.

I would have sworn I saw it discussed here. It’s an absolute tragedy, really grim that recovering like Stig Broekx has is starting to look like a decent outcome.

The worlds CX course looks like laps will be closer to 20 mph than 20 km/h.

Pidcock will do some damage.

Vos can barely believe her luck.

You’d be pissed at having to ride CX bike on it, I think the last USA course was the same?

It’s a terrible course, we went to the worlds at valkenburg and you could barely walk around that course it was so technical, my wife went for a run up there on the Monday after the race, this one looks like a kids scooter track.