{"id":103353,"date":"2025-08-28T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103353\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:23:07","slug":"chris-froome-airlifted-to-hospital-after-suffering-multiple-injuries-in-training-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103353\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Froome airlifted to hospital after suffering multiple injuries in training crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has been airlifted to hospital after suffering multiple injuries after a training crash in southern France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 40-year-old was taken to hospital on Wednesday afternoon by helicopter following a crash near Toulon, around 105 miles (170 km) from his home in Monaco. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Froome will have back surgery later on Wednesday after suffering a lumbar vertebrae fracture, as well as five broken ribs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, his condition is &#8220;stable&#8221; and he did not sustain any head injuries, according to his team Israel-Premier Tech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">French newspaper L&#8217;Equipe reported that Froome was conscious on arrival and was able to speak to medical staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has been airlifted to hospital after suffering multiple injuries after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-103353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}