Cyclist Froome to undergo surgery after airlift rescue

Chris Froome volition acquisition country connected Thursday pursuing the clang which required an airlift to infirmary successful France.

Four-time Tour de France victor Chris Froome is to acquisition country aft “a superior grooming crash” that saw the British cyclist airlifted to a infirmary successful France.

Froome’s team, Israel-Premier Tech, said connected Thursday that helium was “stable and did not prolong immoderate caput injuries” but added that scans confirmed a pneumothorax, 5 breached ribs, and a lumbar vertebrae fracture.

Froome was taken to infirmary successful Toulon by chopper connected Wednesday aft the accident, which happened portion helium was grooming adjacent Saint-Raphael. His squad said “no different cyclists oregon vehicles were involved.”

His past triumph was the Giro d’Italia successful 2018. He besides won the Spanish Vuelta twice, successful 2011 and 2017, bookending his 4 triumphs successful the Tour – the archetypal successful 2013, followed by a hat-trick of titles from 2015-17.

The 40-year-old Froome ne'er returned to his erstwhile champion level pursuing a grooming clang astatine the 2019 Criterium du Dauphine, an lawsuit helium utilized to fine-tune his bid for a record-equalling 5th Tour title. In the accident, helium broke his close femur, elbow and ribs.

This latest incidental could spell the extremity of Froome’s career, arsenic his declaration with Israel-Premier Tech is coming to an end.

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