Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal) certainly isn’t a stranger to recovering from surgery and broken bones but even though the Australian rider has the comeback drill down to a fine art, the path back toward riding and racing has been particularly challenging this time.
The rider crashed and broke her femur while training in August, quickly bringing an already late-starting season to an early halt, but not before delivering two stage wins and a spot on the overall podium at the Giro d’Italia Women and a runner-up spot on the Col de la Madeleine stage at the Tour de France Femmes.
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“Recovery is a bit more of a slog than I initially expected… I must have been a combination of naive and optimistic,” said Gigante on social media.
“I like uphills more than I like uphill battles, but I’m doing my best to stay positive and not skip a single rep out of my billion physio exercises!”