After a long few months off the bike, working hard to rehab and recover, Geoghegan Hart is currently alongside his new
Lidl-Trek teammates in Spain having completed his transfer from the
INEOS Grenadiers. “On September 28, I rode my road bike for the first time, and I now dare to call myself a cyclist again," he says, referencing his time spent at a special institute in Amsterdam. “I wanted to be somewhere where something was happening off-course because you recuperate for a maximum of four or five hours a day. I also wanted to be somewhere where I wouldn't be constantly confronted with the race. Yes, I missed the bike and the lifestyle that came with it, but I was still working hard every day, far away from the boys."
“I have learned a lot about my body over the past year. But look, here I am back in a hotel full of cyclists, with people who do everything for me," Geoghegan Hart concludes. “No doctor can guarantee that. I will never be able to look back on my career without making the distinction between before and after the fall. Currently everything seems fine: flexibility is back, there are no power differences between left or right. I have banished every form of doubt from my mind."