Nine days after being forced to abandon the Giro d'Italia with a case of COVID-19, World Champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep) has been given the green light to resume training. He took to social media to express his feelings, describing leaving the race while in the leader's jersey and as one of the main favourites to win the general classification as "definitely one of the hardest setbacks in my still very short career".
Evenepoel's main previous setback was a serious crash in the 2020 Il Lombardia that left him with a fractured pelvis that took months of rehabilitation.
