Kwiatkowski returns to racing after more than four months away
Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) returned to competition over the weekend at the Clásica San Sebastián after four and a half months away from racing. The former world road champion had attributed a stubborn knee problem to the after-effects of a crash at Strade Bianche, but as he explained in a social media post, he was dealing with a more complicated "biomechanical issue."
"I’d never been through anything like this in my career. A stubborn knee pain turned my life into a mental roller-coaster: nine weeks of fighting the pain and hunting for answers. One day you feel on top of the world, the next you wonder if it’s the end of the road," he wrote.
"After a long battle we finally traced the problem to a biomechanical issue – not the crash and its fallout like we first thought. [Instagram]
