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Sports

Like most Colombian cyclists, Egan

Bernal is a gifted climber.

Unlike most Colombian cyclists, he

took advantage of those climbing skills

honed in the Andean country to reach

the pinnacle of the sport, a victory in the

Tour de France on Sunday.

Bernal, 22, is not only the first Co-

lombian to win but also the youngest

champion of the Tour de France since

1909, and its first Latin American cham-

pion. With his win, he fulfilled what had

been a Colombian dream since 1975,

when Cochise Rodríguez made his de-

but in the race and finished 27th overall.

Only two other Colombians had ever

managed to wear the sought-after yel-

low jersey — albeit briefly, and never to

the finish line.

“This triumph is not only mine, but of

a whole country,’’ an emotional Bernal

told reporters after completing the

race’s penultimate stage. He recalled

that just a few years ago, he was watch-

ing the race on television, when winning

“seemed impossible.”

His most decisive moment came dur-

ing the 19th stage, in which competitors

face two mountain climbs. On the ascent

to the Col de l’Iseran, the highest paved

pass in the Alps at more than 9,000 feet,

Bernal decided to go after Julian

Alaphilippe of France, who was ahead

by 1 minute and 30 seconds.

Bernal climbed the Iseran alone and

began a descent that would take him to

the day’s final pass. But an avalanche

blocked the road, forcing the Tour or-

ganizers to call off the stage early.

Bernal was suddenly the new race-

leader, 45 seconds ahead of Alaphilippe,

and had all but secured the win.

Bernal’s victory, in a sense, is a full cir-

cle moment for his hometown, Zi-

paquirá, a small industrial and agricul-

tural town north of Bogotá that is adja-

cent to the highlands where thousands

of cyclists train every day.

It is also the birthplace of Efraín Fore-

ro, known as “el Zipa,” who in 1951 was

the first winner of the Vuelta a Colombia

race.

Bernal’s father, Germán, used to work

as a security guard, while his mother,

Flor Marina, worked picking carnations

in the fields that dot the savanna in the

outskirts of the Colombian capital.

Bernal began racing at age 8, when he

arrived at the Municipal Sports Insti-

tute of Zipaquirá with a heavy mountain

bike in tow. Fabio Rodríguez, his coach

there, described him as an ordinary

child. “He already knew how to ride, but

nothing more,” Rodríguez recalled.

But he was a driven little boy. As soon

as he got a trophy he started thinking

about the next one. “He always thought

about climbing,” Rodríguez said. “Egan

is a total talent, the whole package, and

very mentally strong. That is what sets

him apart now.”

Bernal formally began his cycling ca-

reer at age 14 as a mountain biker, with

Pablo Mazuera, a coach and patron who

traveled with him to various competi-

tions inside and outside Colombia. “He

always wanted more, and together we

worked step by step to weave a very or-

ganized sports life,” Mazuera said.

“Ever since childhood he was a very

committed person, he always wanted to

be focused on the sport.”

Bernal won important mountain bike

races and was aiming to qualify for the

2016 Olympic Games when his fate

changed. Gianni Savio, the veteran Ital-

ian director of the Androni Giocattolli-

Sidermec road team, sought him out and

made a four-year contract offer, after

watching him breezily climb mountains

as though he was on a motorcycle.

Under Savio’s guidance, Bernal tran-

sitioned to road cycling, which meant

more sponsors, money, structure and

races to hone his talent. According to

Mazuera, Bernal wanted to do little else

than pedal. “Betting on him was not

hard because his commitment and re-

sults were evident,” Mazuera said by

phone while he was on his way to Paris

to watch the final stage.

Within two years Team Sky, the best

funded and winningest team at the Tour,

bought out his contract. The riders for

Team Sky, now Team Ineos, have won

the Tour seven times in the last decade.

Matt Rendell, a sports commentator

and author of “Kings of the Mountains:

How Colombia’s Cycling Heroes

Changed Their Nation’s History,” said

the rural roots of Colombian cyclists

have been important to their success.

Bernal shares some common traits with

Nairo Quintana, a cycling star with vic-

tories in the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta

a España under his belt, along with

three stage wins at the Tour de France.

“Egan is very much like Nairo when

he was 22 — a strong phenomenon,

great at the mountainous circuits. But

Egan has a team Nairo never did. He’s

also mature and hungry, and he’s not

afraid to win.”

Bernal speaks English and Italian and

has proved to be an eloquent spokesman

for the current Colombian crop, perhaps

because he studied at journalism school

on a scholarship before dropping out to

race full time.

During the last year, Bernal fell three

times and underwent clavicle, nose,

cheek and jaw surgeries.

He lost several teeth in an accident

that involved multiple cyclists in the

Clásica de San Sebastián race in Spain

last August. In May, when Bernal was

gearing up for the Giro d’Italia, the sec-

ond biggest race in the international cir-

cuit, another accident rendered him un-

able to move for weeks. While he missed

out on Italy, he gained time to get ready

for France, where he arrived as one of

the favorites.

His success owes much to a well-oiled

machine, and the way Team Ineos, spon-

sored by a British chemical company,

bet on him. When Geraint Thomas, the

2018 champion of the Tour and the origi-

nal team leader, fell behind in the Alps,

he worked alongside Bernal to support

his final stretch.

Colombia increasingly has been a

mecca for elite cyclists, but it lacks a vi-

brant and transparent sports system.

Recent failings in the national sport fed-

eration and doping scandals are symp-

tomatic of a crisis overshadowing it.

Still, the Tour victory, for some com-

mentators, marks a new era in the sport

in which Colombians become serious

contenders.

As Bernal’s countryman Rigoberto

Urán, the 2017 Tour runner-up, put it af-

ter the race: “The road always puts you

where you belong.”

A Colombian’s long climb to glory

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA

BY SINAR ALVARADO

Egan Bernal of Colombia, in the winner’s yellow jersey, with his Team Ineos teammates after winning the Tour de France. He is the first Latin American to win the Tour.

PETE KIEHART FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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