Nearly three months into the season, at the Volta a Catalunya, Warren Barguil (Giant-Alpecin) has finally found himself where he has wanted to be since the start of 2016 - signing on at a race and finally getting down to his usual day-job.
Barguil was one of the Giant-Alpecin riders caught up and inured in the appalling crash at the start of the season that saw various riders hurt when a driver ploughed into their training group on a mountain road near Alicante in Spain. The 24-year-old suffered a fractured scaphoid.
After weeks of delays to his season, at the opening stage of the Volta a Catalunya on Monday, Barguil was able to return to racing. It's his first event since Il Lombardia last October.
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"I'm happy to be back," Barguil told Cyclingnews as he waited outside the Giant-Alpecin team bus in mild sunshine before the start. "It was not easy that moment because it happened to the whole team."
"It was bad. For sure we will never forget it. But we have to look forward, rather than back now."
Barguil said that the accident, in which, he has said in earlier interviews, he and his team-mates could easily have died, has change things for him. "I really enjoy life now, it’s changed my mind about some things."
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