British Tour de France winning cyclist Chris Froome has undergone surgery after a “serious” crash.<\/p>\n
The four-time Tour de France winner, 40, was airlifted to hospital following the crash, which took place while he was training in France, his team, Israel Premier-Tech, announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n
An update was posted on his social media account on Friday, which said: “We can confirm that Chris has successfully undergone surgery following his recent injuries.<\/p>\n
“The procedures went as planned, and Chris is currently recovering in hospital under the care of his medical team.<\/p>\n
“He is in good spirits and grateful for the excellent medical support he has received.<\/p>\n
“Chris and his family would like to thank fans, friends, and the cycling community for their concern and kind messages during this time.”<\/p>\n
Froome was airlifted in Toulon on Wednesday following a “serious training crash”, an earlier update on his social media account said. No other cyclists or vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n
“Fortunately, Chris is stable and did not sustain any head injury,” his team said.<\/p>\n
However, “scans have confirmed a pneumothorax, five broken ribs and a lumbar vertebrae fracture, for which he will undergo surgery”.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: Messages of support poured in after the positive update, with many fans wishing him a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n “Great news! Hope you heal up quickly Chris, wishing you all the best,” reads a message from one fan.<\/p>\n “Such a relief to hear. Get well soon,” another said.<\/p>\n Froome won the Tour de France with Team Sky in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017 and has won the Vuelta a Espana twice and the Giro d’Italia once.<\/p>\n However, the three-time Olympic bronze medallist has been nowhere near his best form since suffering serious injuries in a horrific high-speed crash during training for the Criterium du Dauphine in 2019.<\/p>\n He spent more than three weeks in hospital after fracturing his neck, femur, elbow, hip and ribs when he crashed into a wall at high speed while training.<\/p>\n Froome more recently broke his collarbone at the UAE Tour in February and has also hinted that 2025 could be his final year of competitive racing.<\/p>\n This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.<\/p>\n Please refresh the page for the latest version.<\/p>\n You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the Sky News app<\/strong><\/a>. You can also follow us on WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a> and subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a> to keep up with the latest news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Tour de France winning cyclist Chris Froome has undergone surgery after a “serious” crash. The four-time Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[107410,2000,299,36,94769,132828,20680],"class_list":{"0":"post-382203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-chris-froome","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-israel-premier-tech","13":"tag-serious-training","14":"tag-tour-de-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115111601763037889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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