Urška Žigart has undoubtedly evolved into an able challenger in the mountains, with her top ten results at the Vuelta Femenina and Giro d'Italia ample evidence, but while her climbing held her in good stead during stage 1 of the Tour de Suisse Women, the ghost of a hard-to-forget crash emerged to haunt her on the largely downhill run to the line.
It was on the final day of the Giro d'Italia Women, which delivered an unexpectedly charged GC battle after the previous day's Queen stage was cut short, that Žigart fell while descending. She managed to get back up, remount and forge on to take 12th on the stage and eighth overall, but there was a price.
