{"id":103994,"date":"2025-08-29T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103994\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:19:09","slug":"british-cyclist-froome-in-good-spirits-after-surgery-on-injuries-from-training-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103994\/","title":{"rendered":"British cyclist Froome &#8216;in good spirits&#8217; after surgery on injuries from training accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOULON, France (AP) \u2014 Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome underwent successful surgery after sustaining a fractured vertebrae, collapsed lung and five broken ribs in a training accident in France, his team said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old British cyclist crashed on a training ride Wednesday and was airlifted to a hospital in Toulon.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is in good spirits and grateful for the excellent medical support he has received,\u201d the Israel Premier-Tech team said in a statement that also was posted on Froome&#8217;s Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>The team said Froome had \u201csuccessfully undergone surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe procedures went as planned, and Chris is currently recovering in hospital under the care of his medical team,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Froome won the Tour de France in 2013 and three in a row from 2015-17.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP sports: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOULON, France (AP) \u2014 Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome underwent successful surgery after sustaining a fractured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,74786,75016,784,75017,2592,85,75018,2845],"class_list":["post-103994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broken-ribs","tag-chris-froome","tag-cycling","tag-fractured-vertebrae","tag-france","tag-sports","tag-toulon","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103994","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=103994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}