It's been a very slow recovery process which has seen Buchanan not being able to get on a bike for six months.

Instead, she has been hiking three times a week to be able to strengthen her lungs but now she is back.

 

I’m back...💕 🎉🤘

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The story goes back to New Year's Eve, where the 27-year-old and her friend were 45 minutes out of Cooma, NSW on private property when their off-road buggy rolled.

Buchanan sustained pneumothorax, bleeding around her heart sack, broken nose, and a broken sternum which saw her spend five days in ICU, and an extra six days in the recovery ward.

"I started 2018 not being able to sit up by myself; I had to roll in and out of bed," she wrote on Exclusive Insight.

"I couldn’t laugh, couldn’t cough, couldn’t sneeze because my sternum was in two pieces," Buchanan continued.

However, despite the pain she has gone through to get to this point, the adversity she has had, Buchanan is still aiming to go to Tokyo in 2020, which will be her third Olympics.