{"id":116490,"date":"2025-09-03T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116490\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:30:08","slug":"chris-froome-four-time-tour-de-france-winner-suffered-life-threatening-heart-injury-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116490\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Froome: Four-time Tour de France winner suffered life-threatening heart injury in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Four-time Tour de France<\/a> winner Chris Froome<\/a> suffered a life-threatening heart injury in his crash last week in France, his wife has said.\n <\/p>\n

\n The 40-year-old Froome, who races for Israel\u2013Premier Tech, was airlifted to hospital following a crash during training on August 27, undergoing surgery a day later.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a post on Froome\u2019s X account<\/a>, it said that he had sustained a pneumothorax, five broken ribs, and a lumbar vertebrae fracture.\n <\/p>\n

\n Speaking to The Times<\/a>, Michelle Froome said her husband had also sustained a pericardial rupture, a tear in the protective sac surrounding the heart, often caused by blunt chest trauma and often occurring in road accidents.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt was obviously a lot more serious than some broken bones,\u201d Michelle said. \u201cHe\u2019s fine but it\u2019s going to be a long recovery process. He won\u2019t be riding a bike for a while. Chris is happy for you to share this because people need to understand what is going on.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n She added that her husband had been taken to Sainte Anne Toulon military hospital, the highest level trauma center for the region which specializes in thoracic surgery, saying that Froome was shown a video of both the tear and the repair.\n <\/p>\n

\n A post on Froome\u2019s social media<\/a> said that he was in \u201cgood spirits\u201d after undergoing surgery.\n <\/p>\n

\n The two-time Olympic medalist\u2019s contract expires at the end of the season, with his participation in the remainder of the campaign looking unlikely.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Froome also suffered a big crash in 2019 when training and missed that year\u2019s Tour de France. He was sent to intensive care and fractured his leg following the incident.\n <\/p>\n

\n The 40-year-old is one of the sport\u2019s most successful stars and dominated cycling during the mid-2010s.\n <\/p>\n

\n He won his first Tour de France in 2013 before going on to win back-to-back-to-back titles in 2015, 2016 and 2017.\n <\/p>\n

\n Froome is also a one-time winner of the Giro d\u2019Italia and a two-time winner of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome suffered a life-threatening heart injury in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-116490","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\/116490","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=116490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}