It has now been revealed the operation also uncovered a rupture of the pericardium – a fluid-filled sac that surrounds the heart – due to blunt chest trauma, which incurred when Froome collided with a road sign at over 30mph.<\/p>\n
“It was obviously a lot more serious than some broken bones,” Froome’s wife told <\/a>The Times<\/a>. “He’s fine, but it’s going to be a long recovery process.<\/p>\n Image: “He won’t be riding a bike for a while. Chris is happy for you to share this because people need to understand what is going on.”<\/p>\n Froome is expected to make a full recovery, but at the very least the current season is over.<\/p>\n A statement on behalf of Froome was posted on his Instagram account on September 1, which said: “Chris is deeply grateful for all the kind messages of support.<\/p>\n Instagram<\/p>\n This content is provided by Instagram, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Instagram cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> “He’s still in hospital and focusing on his recovery, so he isn’t able to respond personally for the time being [sorry also to all those that are messaging him on WhatsApp too]. Your thoughts and encouragement mean the world to him.”<\/p>\n The 40-year-old is in the final months of the five-year contract he signed when he left Ineos Grenadiers to join Israel Premier Tech ahead of the 2021 campaign.<\/p>\n Froome won the Tour de France in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, also winning the Giro d’Italia in 2018 and the Vuelta a Espana in both 2011 and 2017 – all with Team Sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome suffered a life-threatening heart injury during last week’s training accident, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-110448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Chris](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skysports-chris-froome-cycling_7003670.jpg\")
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\n Froome won the Tour de France four times in a five-year period from 2013 <\/p>\n
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