{"id":110594,"date":"2025-09-03T03:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110594\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T03:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:24:08","slug":"its-going-to-be-a-long-recovery-chris-froomes-training-crash-woes-included-life-threatening-heart-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110594\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s going to be a long recovery’ – Chris Froome’s training crash woes included life-threatening heart injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome<\/a> is facing a long recovery from injuries sustained in a crash during training last week. According to The Times<\/a>, the 40-year-old sustained an injury to his heart that was life-threatening.<\/p>\n

Froome crashed<\/a> after hitting a kerb and smashing head-first into a road sign at 48kph while training near Saint-Rapha\u00ebl in the south of France and had to be airlifted to the hospital in Toulon.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the already public broken bones in his spine and ribs, his wife Michelle told The Times<\/a> that Froome had sustained a rupture of the lining around his heart, the pericardium.<\/p>\n

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The Sainte-Anne Toulon hospital specialises in thoracic surgery, which Froome underwent last week<\/a> to repair the injury to his heart.<\/p>\n

“It was obviously a lot more serious than some broken bones,” Michelle Froome told The Times. “He’s fine, but it’s going to be a long recovery process. 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’s team, Israel-Premier Tech, listed his injuries as a collapsed lung, five broken ribs, and a lumbar vertebrae fracture. With the potentially fatal pericardial tear, it is unlikely that he will extend his professional cycling career beyond the end of his contract on December 31, 2025.<\/p>\n

It is the second major injury the Briton has had in his career. After winning the Tour de France<\/a> four times between 2013 and 2017, the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a twice (2011, 2017), and the 2018 Giro d’Italia<\/a>, he crashed heavily while previewing the time trial course at the 2019 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In that incident, Froome fractured his femur, elbow, ribs, and pelvis. While he returned to competition in 2020, he was unable to regain his previous level and left his long-time team, Ineos, for Israel-Premier Tech. His best result since then has been a third place on the 2022 Tour de France stage to Alpe d’Huez, won by Tom Pidcock.<\/p>\n

Froome’s last race was the Tour de Pologne, where he finished 68th overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome is facing a long recovery from injuries sustained in a crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-110594","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\/110594","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=110594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}