Lucinda Brand is starting up her cyclocross season at the third race of the UCI World Cup series in Dendermonde on Sunday, having been sidelined through the early races after a crash on the road at the Simac Ladies Tour left her with a shoulder injury that required surgery and a considerable recovery period.
It's the second year running that the Baloise Trek Lions rider, who rides with Lidl-Trek on the road, has had a disrupted start to the cyclocross season as last year Brand suffered a break in one of the bones in her hand in October, which meant she missed out on defending her European title.
