{"id":276472,"date":"2025-11-11T00:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276472\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:04:08","slug":"sarah-gigante-pushes-comeback-limits-with-190km-zwift-ride-after-femur-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276472\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Gigante pushes comeback limits with 190km Zwift ride after femur fracture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gigante has been steadily recovering, and recently shared some updates on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQ00zkCk6Gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media<\/a> about her current condition. \u201cRecovery is a bit more of a slog than I initially expected\u2026 I must have been a combination of naive and optimistic,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI like uphills more than I like uphill battles, but I\u2019m doing my best to stay positive and not skip a single rep out of my billion physio exercises!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AG Insurance &#8211; Soudal confirmed she would be sidelined for several months after the accident, and Gigante herself joked she\u2019s been \u201calmost living\u201d at the Victorian Institute of Sport throughout her rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>For now, her training remains exclusively indoors. \u201cRiding will be all indoors for a while yet, but I started my time on the Zwift Ride with a nice 190km yesterday, so at least I can still train, albeit modified,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>That was not all, as she followed her 190km effort with another 170km Zwift session the next day, humorously titled \u201cDon\u2019t think, just do\u201d on Strava.<\/p>\n<p>Gigante\u2019s bad luck with crashes is nothing new. After an injury-plagued 2023 season in which she could race only the Tour of Scandinavia and the non-UCI event Tour of Bright (which she won), she made a powerful comeback in 2024, winning the Santos Tour Down Under on her debut with AG Insurance\u2013Soudal.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the 2024 season was relatively quiet, although she managed to finish seventh at the Tour de France after a great display in the queen stage of the race: the famous Alpe d&#8217;Huez day in which <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/katarzyna-niewiadoma\" title=\"Katarzyna Niewiadoma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katarzyna Niewiadoma<\/a> managed to defend the yellow jersey from <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/demi-vollering\" title=\"Demi Vollering\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demi Vollering<\/a>, winning the Tour de France with just 4 seconds of margin.<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gigante has been steadily recovering, and recently shared some updates on social media about her current condition. \u201cRecovery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-276472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}