Michael Matthews can still see the mark left by the stitches on his face when he looks in the mirror. The Australian cycling ace "didn't know if I would be back after what happened".
A horror training crash left Matthews requiring immediate surgery in Italy on the open fracture on his left arm. Within days he was on his way to Belgium for another surgery - this time, on his right arm, after the same crash left him with slashed tendons, a broken wrist and a broken thumb. That's before we even get to the sinus fracture in his face.
