Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome is facing a long recovery from injuries sustained in a crash during training last week. According to The Times, the 40-year-old sustained an injury to his heart that was life-threatening.
Froome crashed after hitting a kerb and smashing head-first into a road sign at 48kph while training near Saint-Raphaël in the south of France and had to be airlifted to the hospital in Toulon.
It is the second major injury the Briton has had in his career. After winning the Tour de France four times between 2013 and 2017, the Vuelta a España twice (2011, 2017), and the 2018 Giro d’Italia, he crashed heavily while previewing the time trial course at the 2019 Critérium du Dauphiné.
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