Tour de France 2023 - Egan Bernal : "Avant toute chose, je suis reconnaissant d'être en vie" - Vidéo Dailymotion

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Egan Bernal est de retour sur le Tour de France et son premier Grand Tour depuis son grave accident ! Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers) fera son grand retour sur les routes du Tour de France. On n'avait plus vu le grimpeur colombien sur la Grande Boucle depuis son abandon en 2020. Il s'était concentré sur le Tour d'Italie, qu'il avait brillamment remporté, en 2021. Et l'année dernière, il était toujours en pleine revalidation suite à son grave accident survenu au mois de janvier 2022. Un accident qui l'a marqué. "Avant toute chose, je suis reconnaissant d'être en vie". C'est de cette manière qu'il a débuté la conférence de presse de son équipe INEOS Grenadiers en prélude au Tour de France. "Á côté de cela, je suis vraiment heureux de pouvoir être à nouveau au départ du Tour. J'espère pouvoir me jauger face aux meilleurs coureurs du monde. Depuis l'accident, c'est la raison pour laquelle je me réveille tous les matins. L'objectif est de retrouver mon ancien niveau. Que j'y parvienne ou non, on verra bien. Mais ce qui est sûr, c'est que je travaille chaque jour très dur pour y parvenir".

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00:00 How do you feel about the tour?

00:04 Well, it's been hard a few years, honestly.

00:12 But I think I should be thankful to be alive and to be here with you, actually.

00:23 To be in the start of the tour after everything.

00:30 I just try to see the good things at this point.

00:36 I would love to be back in my level.

00:41 I would love to race again in a tour.

00:46 And to see how I would be with these big names that are now winning.

00:56 I would like to compare myself with them.

01:00 That's why I'm still on cycling.

01:05 I wake up every day working and thinking on that.

01:10 Trying to return to my best level.

01:15 That's what I'm trying to do.

01:19 If I achieve or not that goal is different.

01:23 But for sure I'm working full gas for it.

01:26 Igan, when someone goes through something quite horrific as a sports star,

01:30 the scars physically can be healed.

01:33 But there are sometimes mental scars.

01:35 But you're a professional athlete. You're going for the victory.

01:38 Are you going to be okay when you're going down the descent?

01:41 When you're going and you're trying to push it?

01:43 Do you think what you've been through will be at the back of your mind?

01:46 Or are you now, that's all gone now. That's in the past.

01:49 And you can push and go for that edge when you need to.

01:53 Actually I'm pushing since the moment I crashed.

01:58 I think it's been a completely...

02:08 I don't know how to say.

02:11 Since the moment I crashed, I think it's been...

02:16 During all the time, it's been...

02:21 How do you say?

02:23 It's been a constant way of competing and of fighting.

02:33 So it's been a constant want to get back to competition and to fight.

02:39 I think I'm ready to be back.

02:45 That's what I'm planning to do.

02:48 And if you are able to complete the race,

02:50 if you are able to, who knows with the yellow jersey,

02:53 how would that achievement rank,

02:55 given what you've been through in the last couple of years?

02:58 It would be amazing just to be again in Paris

03:03 and do the first Grand Tour after the crash.

03:11 I think it would be a big step for me.

03:14 And for sure it would be really useful for the future.

03:18 I'm thinking not just in this Tour de France,

03:21 I'm thinking in La Vuelta this year, maybe the Tour next year.

03:27 And I think I can complete this race with good feelings.

03:32 This would be a good thing for me.

03:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:38 [music]

Tour de France 2023 - Egan Bernal : "Avant toute chose, je suis reconnaissant d'être en vie"

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