
Canadian cyclist Michael Woods recovered from nasty crash, ready to race
A broken femur and global pandemic seem like a nasty double whammy.
But after going down in a high-speed crash March 12 in the Paris-Nice race, Canadian Michael Woods has used cycling’s COVID-19 hiatus to get healthy and now looks to resume competition.
“It’s been very weird how fortunate I’ve been,” Woods said. “I don’t wish I had broke my femur but the timing of it was incredible. I broke it on a Thursday and the lockdown in Spain began on the Monday.
“And then the first day that professional cyclists with a licence were allowed to ride outside in Spain was the first day I was cleared by the doctors to ride outside.”