Cyclist Chris Froome’s crash caused life-threatening heart injury

Crash that saw Froome airlifted to infirmary near four-time Tour de France champ with life-threatening wounded to heart.

Four-times Tour de France champion Chris Froome sustained a life-threatening wounded to his bosom successful a grooming clang successful confederate France past week, his woman Michelle said.

The 40-year-old Briton was airlifted to infirmary successful Toulon aft the August 27 crash, which besides near him with breached ribs, a collapsed lung and a backmost fracture.

His woman said doctors discovered Froome had suffered a pericardial rupture – a teardrop successful the protective sac surrounding the heart, often caused by blunt thorax trauma.

“It was evidently a batch much superior than immoderate breached bones,” she told The Times newspaper. “He’s fine, but it’s going to beryllium a agelong betterment process. He won’t beryllium riding a motorcycle for a while.”

Froome, who has won 7 Grand Tours – including 2 Vuelta a Espana titles and 1 Giro d’Italia triumph – has struggled to regain his champion signifier pursuing a high-speed clang during grooming for the Criterium du Dauphine successful 2019.

Last year, helium expressed his tendency to vie successful the Tour de France 1 last clip earlier retiring, but has faced further setbacks. He suffered a breached collarbone successful a clang during the last signifier of the UAE Tour earlier this twelvemonth and was not selected for this year’s Tour de France.

Following the surgery, a station connected Froome’s Instagram relationship said the cyclist was “in bully spirits and grateful for the fantabulous aesculapian enactment helium has received”.

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