To be able to eat, just to wash my mouth, to be able to shower.

 “To be able to eat, just to wash my mouth, to be able to shower.

 Those were the first things I had to learn. And just to do that, it took me two months. So imagine if just to walk, to wash your mouth, it takes you two months, then how long it's going to take me to get back to a competitive level in a peloton.

Bernal began his season at the 2023 Vuelta a San Juan

"It was hours of work. But I had the support of my family, of the whole team and it was a big team effort.”After his miraculous recovery, Bernal, who last won a Grand tour in 2021, has dreams of competing in this year’s Tour de France.

“After the 2019 Tour de France I was obsessed with the Tour. If I didn’t win the Tour it would be the end of the world and the reality is not like this, he said.“I would like to be at the Tour in a good level and give the best from myself and see how far I can go. I would like to do it well and that's the reason why I wake up every morning.”