{"id":102328,"date":"2025-08-28T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102328\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:28:14","slug":"chris-froome-four-time-tour-de-france-champion-airlifted-to-hospital-after-serious-crash-near-toulon-cycling-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102328\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Froome: Four-time Tour de France champion airlifted to hospital after ‘serious crash’ near Toulon | Cycling News"},"content":{"rendered":"

British four-time Tour de France winning cyclist Chris Froome is in stable condition awaiting surgery after a training crash in southern France.<\/p>\n

Froome was on a training ride on Wednesday when the accident occurred and was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Toulon on the French Riviera.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old is set to undergo an operation on his back injury on Thursday.<\/p>\n

A statement on Froome’s official X profile read: “Chris was airlifted to hospital in Toulon yesterday following a serious training crash (no other cyclists or vehicles were involved).<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“We will update on Chris’ condition following surgery.”<\/p>\n

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\n Froome dominated the Tour de France with Team Sky prior to 2019<\/p>\n

Froome won the Tour de France with Team Sky in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, and also claimed grand tour titles at the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana. He has been racing with Israel Premier-Tech since 2021.<\/p>\n

He broke his collarbone at the UAE Tour in February and has previously hinted that 2025 could be his final year of competitive racing.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Froome was put in intensive care after hitting a wall at 35mph during practice before a stage at the Criterium du Dauphine.<\/p>\n

He recovered after surgery but has since not been near the level that saw him win seven Grand Tours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British four-time Tour de France winning cyclist Chris Froome is in stable condition awaiting surgery after a training…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-102328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}