Kluge back on track after heart surgery

Roger Kluge at this year's Paris-Nice (Image credit: Getty Images)

Roger Kluge, the reigning world champion in the Madison with partner Theo Reinhardt, had a poor showing in his first race of the UCI Track World Cup series in Glasgow, finishing a distant 17th in the Omnium, but the result was a victory in itself coming one month after the German underwent heart surgery to fix a congenital defect that caused him to have a minor stroke.

Kluge's condition was only made public on Saturday after the Germany monthly Moz published an interview with him. He had surgery on October 7 to fix a Patent Foramen Ovale (OP) - a congenital defect in the heart where an opening between the right and left atria of the heart fails to close after birth. 

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