A few days after the half of the year, three are the World Tour runners (maximum category) who have not yet been able to wear a bib number this season (as pointed out procyclingstats), and all of them have several things in common: they have not done it due to physical problems, injuries, operations… and all three are Colombian. They are Egan Bernal (Ineos), Álvaro José Hodeg (UAE) and Daniel Arroyave (Education First). The most striking of all the cases is, as expected, that of the current winner of the Giro, a Bernal who suffered a very serious accident on January 24 when he crashed into a bus in one of his training sessions in his country, Colombia.
“Cervical and thoracic trauma, closed chest trauma, musculoskeletal trauma and trauma to the lower limbs,” the medical report said, among other injuries, five months ago. However, heThe recovery of the winner of the Tour de France in 2019 is on the right track and, although there is no reappearance date, it is expected that he will be able to race in the second half of the season. This is demonstrated by his gradual training. At 25 years old, she is still at a young age to continue adding pieces to a list of winners that is already of a very high level. Another of the runners who has not been able to debut is Álvaro José Hodeg, a sprinter of the same age as Egan (25) who was uncovered in 2018, with their first hits.
Hodeg signed for the current campaign by the UAE, coming from the Quick Step, but he still hasn’t been able to show off his new jersey. “Alvarito is fighting and working hard on his recovery to be able to compete since he broke his foot and hand in December. He had to face three complicated operations,” Josean Matxín, UAE manager, explained on social networks. The third who has not run this year is Daniel Arroyave, from Education First. In December of last year he was run over in his country by a reckless driver. “The material is something that is recovered, not a life,” he said as he recovered. The three fight to get back into competition on the road.