Although the injury situation continues to be serious at Cofidis, in recent days some positive signals have begun to emerge from the team's medical ward. The French team itself provided this news through a lengthy press release, communicating the health status of all riders who have recently been sidelined, highlighting the (few) steps forward made by some of them.

Reading this bulletin, Valentin Ferron appears to be managing the least serious problems. Having returned to racing three days ago after recovering from inguinal artery surgery last October, he fell on Sunday in Almeria, sustaining abrasions that should not be too complicated to overcome.

Both Camille Charret and Oliver Knight will still have to struggle to taste the race atmosphere again, but both are already seeing light at the end of the tunnel: the nineteen-year-old French neo-pro, operated on a few weeks ago due to fractures to the clavicle and finger sustained during training, has received clearance to train outdoors, while the British rider (who fractured his fifth metacarpal after being hit) is close to removing the stitches he currently has and, in the meantime, has already started pedaling on rollers.

Unlike them, it is still uncertain when Ludovic Robeet (still in rehabilitation after the stroke that hit him in the first days of last September) and the two riders retired from the last Tour of Oman, Sergio Samitier and Damien Touzé, will be able to resume competitive activity, both dealing with situations not easily resolved.

The Spaniard, already confirmed to have fractured the radial head (which will be treated conservatively), will undergo further tests in the coming hours to rule out a possible scaphoid fracture that, if confirmed, could force him to proceed with an operation that would further extend his return time, while the twenty-nine-year-old Frenchman is undoubtedly the one in the most difficult conditions.

In Oman, Touzé suffered intestinal perforation (which required emergency surgery), a tibial fracture, and ruptures of both the spleen and the anterior cruciate ligament, as well as the medial and lateral collateral ligaments. This has led the native of Iville to currently have his leg in a cast from the groin to the foot, a condition in which he will soon be repatriated to Belgium to continue a rehabilitation that promises to be long and quite complicated.