Following a “serious training crash,” which left the British cyclist airlifted to a French hospital, Chris Froome, four-time Tour de France winner, will have surgery.
Froome’s team, Israel-Premier Tech, claimed on Thursday that he was “stable and did not sustain any head injuries,” but added that scans revealed a pneumothorax, five broken ribs, and a lumbar vertebrae fracture.
Following the accident, which occurred close to Saint-Raphael, Froome was taken to a hospital in Toulon by helicopter on Wednesday. No other cyclists or vehicles, according to his team.
His most recent success was the 2018 Giro d’Italia. Additionally, he won the Spanish Vuelta twice in 2011 and 2017, wrapping up his four Tour victories, the first of which came in 2013, and the second of which came in 2015 and 2017.
Following a training crash at the 2019 Criterium du Dauphine, which he used to fine-tune his bid for a fifth Tour title that was unreachable, the 40-year-old Froome never reached his previous best level. He suffered rib, elbow, and right femur injuries in the collision.
Source: Aljazeera
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