Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome suffers collapsed lung, broken back and broken ribs in serious cycling crash and is airlifted to hospital

Four times Tour de France champion Chris Froome was taken to hospital in France after a ‘serious’ accident during training, which resulted in a collapsed lung, a break on his back and five broken ribs.

40 -year -old Frroome flew to the hospital in Toulon and today there will be surgery with a bicycle career.

Froome’s team said in a statement today: ‘Chris, after a serious training accident yesterday afternoon was taken to the hospital in Toulon (no other vehicle or cyclist).

Fortunately, it was stable and did not continue any head injury. However, the scans confirmed a pneumothorax, five broken ribs and a lumbar vertebrae that will be operated in this afternoon. ‘

Froome, who lives in Monaco, continued in the south of France, near Saint-Raphael when he fell. According to a report made by the French outlet L’Equipe.

Froome was conscious and communicated with the people around him as he was ventilated. He didn’t hit his head in the accident.

Froome, depicted with his wife Michelle, has a collapsed lung and broke a few bones

Froome is expected to miss the rest of the bike season.

Briton’s contract in the Israeli-Premier Tech team is exhausted at the end of the year, and the accident comes from a broken collarbone on the UAE round in February.

Without a new plan to sign a new agreement on the horizon, Froome’s 18 -year professional equestrian career was suspected.

At the beginning of this month Asked by bici.pro What is in terms of the career of the future. The answer was Coy.

Froome, the website, “ “ my contract is full and I do not know whether I can continue, ” he said.

Later, the house continent, born in Kenya in 1985, announced that it plans to grow bicycle in Africa.

“What is certain, when I stopped, as I have said for a while, I want to open a bicycle school in Africa,” he continued. “ I want to give the opportunity to ride and career many young people.

‘I think this is especially in this region of Africa. I think of Ethiopia and Kenya Marathon and medium -range runners. I think there are also capabilities that are suitable for riding a bike, they haven’t had the opportunity to compete before.

Briton’s contract with Israel-Premier Tech team ends at the end of this season

Froome is now expected to miss the rest of the bicycle campaign, so his career may be over

‘I’m not going to compete in the world championships in Rwanda and like to be there, but it’s not a big problem because it doesn’t change my plans. My real goal is to develop a great project that I am sure to bring interesting new drivers. ‘

Before securing three of the following four headings, Froome secured the first Tour de France in 2013.

Since 2018, he competed for Team Sky, he did not win a major tour when he won victory in Giro D’Italia for the first and only time.

The British rider seems to have never survived to break the femur in a high -speed accident in the middle of 2019 Tour de France.

After the accident that held him out for eight months, he became a part of the Israeli Premier Technology team.

Two times the Olympic medal felt that ‘a second chance’ was given to return to my favorite sports’.

“ I feel a second chance, ” he said. “ I was given the opportunity to return to the bicycle race and my favorite sport. If he had pointed out the end of my accident career, I still felt that I had more to give.

“ Although I’m not at the front end of the races at the moment, I enjoy doing my job and being a part of the Israeli Premier Technology team.

Froome is a British bicycle legend and won four Tour de France championship in his 18 -year career

“ As if I retreated for 15 years and I want to go to the highest level. This is a new approach for me and I hope to do it for a few more years. ‘

He has been married to Michelle Cound for 11 years, met in 2009 and the couple now live in Monaco.

The couple has two children together, a son named Kellan, and a daughter named Katie.