Three months ago, 34-year-old Chris Froome lay on the side of a French roadside with life-threatening injuries after hitting a wall at 60kph on his ITT bike.
He sustained multiple fractures including a broken femur, elbow and ribs after taking his hands off the bars to blow his nose while checking out the time trial course. The crash ruled out his tilt at a fifth Tour de France in July, the 2019 edition won by team mate Egan Bernal.
But if anyone was going to push their recovery, it would be the four-times Tour de France champion who was back on the home trainer a month after leaving hospital.
Froome hopes to compete at the Saitama Criterium in Japan on October 27.
