The quadruple winner of the Tour de France Chris Froome hospitalized after a heavy fall in training

The Briton suffers from multiple fractures, announced his Israel Premier Tech team on Thursday.

End of the compromise season. Christopher Froome was helicopter in Toulon after a heavy fall on Wednesday August 27 in training. In a stable state, the quadruple winner of the Tour de France (2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017) suffers from a “pneumothorax, five broken ribs and a fracture of lumbar vertebrae, for which it will be operated this afternoon “, said his team, Israel Premier Tech on his social networks Thursday, August 28.

Chris Froome fell alone, without involving a vehicle or another cyclist, said the training in which the native of Nairobi has been playing for 2021. At the end of the contract, the 40 -year -old runner has still not expressed himself on the rest of his career. But the septuple winner of Grands Tours (four Tour de France, two Vuelta and a Giro) has not won since 2018 since 2018 and sees its level dropped since its fall during the Criterium of the Dauphiné in 2019, which had fractured the femur.