PARIS (AP) — Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome is back in the saddle.

Less than three months after undergoing surgery following a serious crash, the 40-year-old British cyclist posted a selfie on his Instagram page showing him on a Cote d’Azur road. Wearing his training gear and smiling, he posed with the sunrise in the background.

Froome sustained a fractured vertebrae, collapsed lung and five broken ribs in the training accident in France.

“It’s been a tough road back after my latest crash but it feels so good to finally be out here spinning the legs and on the road again,” Froome wrote. “Every setback teaches you something… this one reminded me to slow down, heal and enjoy the simple things in life.”

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