{"id":104005,"date":"2025-08-28T21:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104005\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:46:14","slug":"chris-froome-airlifted-to-a-hospital-serious-accident-injuries-surgery-statement-video-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104005\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Froome airlifted to a hospital, serious accident, injuries, surgery, statement, video, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has been airlifted to a hospital in Toulon after a serious training accident that could signal the end of his career.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Israel-Premier Tech released a statement confirming the 40-year-old would undergo surgery after suffering a fractured vertebrae, collapsed lung and five broken ribs in a crash. He was taken by helicopter to a hospital located about 100 miles from his home in Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>According to French newspaper L\u2019Equipe, Froome was conscious and speaking to medical staff upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest cycling news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=CyclingArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up now &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u201cChris was airlifted to hospital in Toulon yesterday following a serious training crash (no other cyclists or vehicles were involved),\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately 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<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will update on Chris\u2019 condition following surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Froome is expected to miss the remainder of the season due to his injuries. His five-year contract with Israel\u2013Premier Tech ends this year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Froome was put in intensive care after a separate cycling accident in the Dauphine region of France.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from his Tour de France triumphs in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, Froome won the Giro d\u2019Italia in 2018 and the Vuelta a Espana in 2011 and 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has been airlifted to a hospital in Toulon after a serious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-104005","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\/104005","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=104005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}