{"id":99788,"date":"2025-08-29T00:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99788\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:50:12","slug":"chris-froome-four-time-tour-de-france-winner-airlifted-to-hospital-following-serious-crash-will-undergo-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99788\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Froome: Four-time Tour de France winner airlifted to hospital following serious crash, will undergo surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome<\/a> will undergo surgery on Thursday following a serious training crash.The 40-year-old Briton<\/a> was airlifted to hospital in Toulon, France, on Wednesday afternoon following the incident, which did not involve any other cyclists or vehicles.<\/p>\n

A statement released by his team Israel-Premier Tech read: “Chris Froome was airlifted to hospital in Toulon yesterday afternoon following a serious training crash [no other cyclists or vehicles were involved].<\/p>\n

“Fortunately, 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

“We will update on Chris\u2019 condition following surgery.”<\/p>\n

Froome, currently in his fifth year with Israel-Premier Tech, is out of contract at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

His most recent race was at the Tour de Pologne earlier this month, where he finished 68th overall.<\/p>\n

Froome fought back from a serious injury sustained during a high-speed crash at the Criterium de Dauphine in 2019, which left him with a fractured neck, femur, hip, elbow and ribs.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, he returned to competition eight months later – but the 40-year-old has not been able to recapture the dominance that made him one of the sport’s most recognisable names.<\/p>\n

Froome won the Tour four times between 2013 and 2017 during Team Sky’s reign at the top of world cycling.<\/p>\n

A fifth Tour de France title would have put him level with Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome will undergo surgery on Thursday following a serious training crash.The 40-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[35740,4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-99788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-chris-froome","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99788","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=99788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}