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Four-Gangers Tour de France winner Chris Froome suffered major injuries in a “serious exercise accident” on Wednesday.
He was lifted to a hospital in Toulon after the crash, according to a post in his X account.
“Fortunately, Chris is stable and maintained no head injuries, but scans have confirmed a pneumothorax, five broken ribs and a lumbar vertebra, which he will undergo an operation this afternoon,” the post said.
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Four-Gangers Tour de France winner Chris Froome suffered several injuries in a “serious” crash on Wednesday. (Tim de Waele/Corbis via Getty Images)
His team said “No other cyclists or vehicles were involved.”
Froome’s first Tour de France victory came in 2013. He then won three-like after losing in 2014 and became the first person to defend the title since Lance Armstrong before his seven wins were stripped.
The overall leader’s yellow Jersey Britain’s Christopher Froome runs in heavy rain during the 204.5 km nineteenth phase of the 100th edition of the Tour de France Cycling Race on July 19, 2013, between Bourg-D’oisans and Le Grandand, French Alps. (Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)
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His last win was Giro d’Italia in 2018. He also won the Spanish Vuelta twice, in 2011 and 2017, where he booked his four triumphs in the tour-the first in 2013 followed by a Hat Trick of Titles from 2015-17.
40-year-old Froome never returned to his former best level after a training accident at the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2019, an event he used to fine-tune his bid for a record equality’s fifth tour title. In the accident he broke his right femur, elbow and ribs.
Britain’s Christopher Froome runs under the 32 km individual time trials and seventeenth phase of the 100th edition of the Tour de France Cycling Race on July 17, 2013, between Embrun and Cheringes, southeastern France. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty Images)
Froome has been signed with Israel Premier Tech since 2021, but with the contract that soon expires, combined with this crash, his career could be in danger.
