Following his crash in southern France last week, four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome says he is “relieved to be heading home from the hospital.”
The 40-year-old British soldier thanked Sainte-Anne Toulon Military Hospital for the place of his surgery and posted a photo of him holding his daughter’s hand on X.
In the training accident near Toulon, Froome suffered five broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a lumbar vertebrae fracture. He was then airlifted to the hospital.
Froome’s injuries, according to his wife Michelle, were “apparently much more serious than some broken bones,” his wife later told The Times.
She claimed that during surgery, the doctors discovered a pericardial rupture, an injury where the sac that surrounds the heart is torn.
Froome is one of history’s most prestigious cyclists.
Along with his Tour de France victories, he has won seven Grand Tours, including one Giro d’Italia and two Vuelta a Espana victories.
Only four men, Miguel Indurain, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Jacques Anquetil, have won more Tour de France titles.
Froome was honored for his services to cycling in 2015 and also won two Olympic bronze medals in the individual time trial in 2012 and 2016.
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