Tao Geoghegan Hart says he has to be «patient» as he continues to recover from a complex fracture to his left femur suffered on Stage 11 of Giro d'Italia.
The British rider left the Giro in an ambulance after a freak crash that also saw team-mate Geraint Thomas and Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) go down.
Ad With a return date still unknown, Hart is currently undergoing rehabilitation in the Netherlands and says he is spending his time «doing some other things» away from cycling.
Giro d'ItaliaGeoghegan Hart suffers fractured hip in horror Giro crash17/05/2023 AT 20:50 «It's not that I've been able to do a great deal in the last weeks, to be honest, with the mobility around the leg and stuff, I have to be careful of not overdoing it,» he told Cyclingnews. «I've got my Brompton folded up in the boot of my car, which I'm itching to get out to kind of explore the city a little bit more in the coming weeks. »And for now, just doing what I can and enjoying puttering around really and yeah, trying to recover from the rehab because it's pretty arduous. “During my rehab here in the Netherlands, one of the important things to me was to be in a city because I think there's just such a great diversity of people and culture and galleries and opportunities to just spend one time. «So that was a unique opportunity to fill this period where possible with doing some other things, outside of the three to four hours a day of rehab and physio.» 'Time is running out' — Why is Van Aert struggling to win at the Tour?