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Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome suffered major injuries in a “serious training crash” on Wednesday.
He was airlifted to a hospital in Toulon following the crash, according to a post on his X account.
“Fortunately, Chris is stable and did not sustain any head injuries, however, scans have confirmed a pneumothorax, five broken ribs, and a lumbar vertebrae fracture, for which he will undergo surgery this afternoon,” the post said.
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Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome suffered numerous 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-straight after losing in 2014, becoming the first person to defend the title since Lance Armstrong before his seven victories were stripped.
Overall leader’s yellow jersey Britain’s Christopher Froome rides in heavy rain during the 204.5 km nineteenth stage of the 100th edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 19, 2013, between Bourg-d’Oisans and Le Grand-Bornand, French Alps. (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)
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His last victory was the Giro d’Italia in 2018. He also won the Spanish Vuelta twice, in 2011 and 2017, bookending his four triumphs in the Tour — the first in 2013 followed by a hat trick of titles from 2015-17.
The 40-year-old Froome never returned to his previous best level following a training crash at the 2019 Critérium du Dauphiné, an event he used to fine-tune his bid for a record-equaling fifth Tour title. In the accident, he broke his right femur, elbow and ribs.
Britain’s Christopher Froome rides during the 32 km individual time-trial and seventeenth stage of the 100th edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 17, 2013, between Embrun and Chorges, southeastern France. (JEFF PACHOUD/AFP via Getty Images)
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Froome has been signed with Israel-Premier Tech since 2021, but with the contract soon expiring, combined with this crash, his career could be in jeopardy.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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