Clean slate. After experiencing unusual sensations in his left leg during the second half of the road racing cycling season, the runner Shirin van Anrooij He was diagnosed with narrowing of his external iliac artery. On October 31, the Dutch cyclist He underwent a successful operation to widen the artery and will now spend a long period of rest before returning to training and, eventually, competing.
It is the good news that his current team is sending first, the Lidl-Trekwith whom he has a contract until 2026, although “unfortunately this means that Shirin will miss the cyclocross season, as well as the first months of the road season. He is expected to return to road competition in May with the Lidl-Trek”.
The protagonist of this story himself explains it on his Instagram account: “My off-season will be a bit longer this year, after a few difficult months on and off the bike, we finally got the reason why what caused me problems with my left leg and I had a successful operation to repair a narrowing of my external iliac artery It was a scary discovery at first, but everything went well and I have big smile on my face now that I can finally start healing myself.”
He added: “It will be six months until I can think about racing again, so sadly this means no CX for me in 2024/2025, but I will be watching and cheering everyone on all the time!”
The 23/24 cyclocross season won the test in the United States of Trek Cup and fifth and sixth in two trials of CX World Cup. This season his last race to compete was Gravel World Cup, where he finished 31st, while on Tour de France she finished as the second best young woman in the race, a classification she led, among other trials, in Return to Burgos wave Women’s Volta Cycling Week of the Valencian Community.
Source: La Verdad
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