Back from the brink, Heinrich Haussler hopes to finish Giro d'Italia a winner

By Rupert Guinness
Updated July 11 2015 - 10:18am, first published May 30 2015 - 1:37pm

CERVINIA: When Heinrich Haussler spent the first rest day of the Giro d'Italia in hospital vomiting and with gastroenteritis, the prospect of him still competing in the race almost two weeks later with the finish in Milan in sight appeared bleak at best - let alone his chances of being able to win a stage.