Tour de France Femmes champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot has ended her season to undergo surgery on an ankle injury that has been troubling her since March.
The Visma-Lease A Bike racer had already been ruled out of today’s UEC Road European Championships road race due to an illness sustained after the World Championships in Rwanda.
A period of three weeks’ recovery from the surgery means that Ferrand-Prévot won’t be racing again during this year, and so her season has come to an end.
“My dear friends, there have been ups and downs, but overall I have always had problems with my ankle since my fall in March on Strade Bianche, and I felt that since the World Championships in Rwanda, it hadn’t been great. In a repeat of what happened before Paris-Roubaix, I fell ill immediately after my return and had to have surgery today,” Ferrand-Prévot wrote in a post on Instagram.
Ferrand-Prévot’s season may have come to a premature end, but she can look back on a highly successful year, her first full season on the road since 2018.
“I wish the French team all the best for the European Championships,” Ferrand-Prévot concluded her Instagram post. “With the…
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