Dakar champion agreed to amputated the legs after the accident

The French champion “Dakara” Mathieu Bomel said on Instagram (prohibited social network in Russia; belongs to META, recognized as an extremist organization and prohibited in the Russian Federation) that he agreed to amputated the legs after the accident.

The athlete said he would receive a carbon prosthesis. He emphasized that he would have operations on his left leg and months of recovery. At the same time, Bomel expressed the hope of returning to duty to the next Dakar.

Bomel had an accident in January 2025. He received injuries of both legs and was introduced into an artificial one.

Bomel was the navigator of Nasser al-Attia. He won the Dakar in 2015, 2019, 2022 and 2023.

In January 2023, the Olympic champion in dancing on the ice of Roman Kostomarov was hospitalized with pneumonia and influenza B. Due to the prolonged connection to the apparatus for saturation of blood with oxygen and the apparatus of artificial ventilation of the lungs, he began the death of tissues. Doctors amputated the skater with both feet, then the lower legs of both legs, the whole brush of the right hand and several fingers of the left. Later he installed prostheses on his feet and his right hand.