'It’s like being born again': Egan Bernal on being alive after crash

Ineos Grenadiers rider says his life changed in a second, as he is released from hospital after crash

Egan Bernal
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Egan Bernal has said that still being alive is like being "born again", and that he has been given a "second chance" as he left hospital, 14 days after the training crash which left him severely injured.

The Ineos Grenadiers rider left the Clínica Universidad de La Sabana, north of Bogotá, on Sunday after spending 14 days there. He has previously said that the accident left him with a  "95 per cent chance" of becoming paralysed.

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