"Maybe I’m a super hero” – Jonas Abrahamsen makes miraculous recovery to ride the Tour

With the Tour de France now just days away, one of the most unexpected stories heading into the Grand Départ in Lille comes from Uno-X Mobility's Jonas Abrahamsen, who will line up on July 5th despite fracturing his collarbone less than two weeks ago.

For all the fanfare surrounding the race favourites, it’s the resilience of riders like Abrahamsen that add another layer of drama to the narrative. Less than 2 weeks before the start, the Norwegian looked certain to miss the Tour after crashing in Belgium and sustaining what is typically a months-long injury. Now, he’s not only back on the bike, he’s aiming for the breakaway again.

Abrahamsen revealed to Cycling Weekly that he was assessed by a specialist in Manchester, whose reaction to his recovery bordered on disbelief.

"I went and saw a specialist in Manchester to look at it. The doctor checked me and he was very very happy, he was saying that this isn’t normal, a collarbone recovery can usually take more than eight weeks. He was pretty surprised at my situation, I am super human," Abrahamsen said.

The 29-year-old’s optimism, perhaps bolstered by adrenaline, perhaps by sheer physical freakishness, seems to have been matched by his physiological response. While most collarbone fractures, particularly those affecting the shaft or central area of the bone, would rule out a rider for weeks, his break occurred at the end of the bone. That made all the difference.

"I managed to get back outside to ride my bike very quickly, I’ve been so lucky that it was the end of the bone, not the middle,” he explained. “At the Tour I will try to get in the breakaway again now.”

Abrahamsen has been a breakout name for Uno-X over the past 18 months, and his performances at the 2024 Tour de France, where he featured heavily in breakaways, earned him widespread praise. That made 2025 a clear target from early on.

"The Tour de France has been the biggest goal for me since the start of last November. I’ve trained hard every day to be good for this moment,” he said. “It was such a shit time to then crash in Belgium, but that’s cycling sometimes.”

The crash came at an awful moment, and with only a short recovery window, Abrahamsen admitted his chances looked slim. “I did not then have much hope of being able to go to the Tour but every day since then has been fast, I’ve got better and better which is crazy.”

"We have a lot of strong guys, sprinters and others, but if I can get in the breaks again then I will for sure try," he said.

"Maybe I’m a super hero,” he joked. “It’s not very often that stuff like this happens and you recover quickly so maybe my body is different. I think having positivity in this situation is important, you should never give up when injured.”

The recovery, he insists, wasn’t a miracle, at least not entirely. It was grounded in consistency and control.

“Trust yourself and your body and the rest will come. I eat healthy, I did everything perfect with training, eating and sleeping so anything was possible for me in the end."