'My body was done' - Elisa Longo Borghini reboots after sepsis, COVID-19 and crash-derailed season

Italian National Champion Elisa Longo Borghini
Italian National Champion Elisa Longo Borghini (Image credit: Ross Bell/Lidl-Trek)

After a series of setbacks with illness and injury, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Elisa Longo Borghini is returning to racing at♛ the UAE Tour Women, hoping she can just be “the real Elisa” in 2024 as she targets the Ardennes Classics, Olympics and all three Grand Tours.

Longo Borghini had one of the hardest seasons in her 13-year professional career as a long bout with COVID-19 in spring preceded a dangerous crash taking her out of the Giro and a nasty skin infection ending not onlyꦏ🐽 her Tour de France Femmes and World Champio🧔nships challenge butꦦ her season as a whole.

James Moultrie
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James Moultrie is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a News Writer in 2023 after originally contributing as a freelancer for eight months, during which time he also wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Cycling Weekly. Prior to joining the team he reported on races such as Paris-Roubaix and the Gi🐽ro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout van Aert. Outside of cycling, he spends the majority of his time watching other sports – rugby, football, cricket, and American Football to name a few.