Egan Bernal denounces that his brother was almost run over and claims Ramo for use of 'egansito'

Egan Bernal, who crashed into an intermunicipal bus in Gachancipá on January 24 while training in the time trial mode, made two complaints on March 17: one related to the recklessness of drivers on the roads, which affected his brother, and another with the tribute paid to him by the Ramo company when he won the title of the Giro d'Italia.

On his Twitter account, the Young Wonder of Zipaquirá said that, while he was accompanying his brother Ronald to cycling training — Egan from a car, of course — a tractomule came close to running him over, a fact that would have involved another hard blow to his family.

“A mule from the same company that was trending a few days ago for almost running over some cyclists, almost ran over my brother. Good thing I was accompanying him in the car. How lazy this repetitive situation, the company should give some classes on road safety,” he published, although he did not mention the car brand.

But it is not only tractomula drivers who continue to put the lives of cyclists at risk. Last November 13, the winner of the Tour de France 2019 shared a video showing how a car came close to running over it when overtaking it near a bend. It happened while training in the vicinity of Tabio, Cundinamarca.

It is worth remembering that as a result of the collision with the bus in Gachancipá, in which the driver had nothing to do with it, as the authorities verified, it is most likely that the rider will miss the rest of the cycling season: in addition to a double surgical intervention on his back, he had to undergo surgery on his patella and right femur. He was also subjected to a thorax tube procedure due to the perforation of a lung during the fall.

Last year, when Bernal was crowned champion of the Giro d'Italia, becoming the second Colombian to do so, after Nairo Quintana, the Ramo company paid tribute to him with one of its most renowned products, Gansito. It consisted of adding the 'e' to the wrap, in which the illustration of a cyclist with the maglia rosa was seen, in such a way that it would be egansito.

Egan explained that the company did not communicate with him or the team where he operates, the Ineos Grenadiers, to have the authorization to reproduce the egansito on the product packaging, although they later contacted him to claim himself. However, what was promised remained in words.

The rider, one of the so-called beats in the big rounds of the two Slovenian phenomena, Primoz Roglic and Tadej Pogacar, added that he never asked for financial remuneration for him, but support for the young promises of cycling in the country.

“How sad... we get to the point where Ramo is left with a bad image and the group of children we support are left without an opportunity for sponsorship,” he concluded.

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