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Sarah Gigante is named for the Faun Tour Femmes, ending 403 days out after a fractured femur. She's returning in September, not because she's peaking, but because a second surgery in June to fix an irritating surgical nail pushed her recovery this far past schedule.
This isn't the comeback the 2025 season promised. Gigante finished sixth at the Tour de France Femmes and third at the Giro d'Italia Women with two stage wins before the crash that broke her femur weeks later. Instead of building on that podium in 2026, she missed the Giro entirely and now arrives at a four-stage race in the Drôme and Ardèche with no results expectations — AG Insurance-Soudal are calling it rehabilitation, not competition.
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