Four-time Tour de France champion returns to cycling after career-threatening crash: 'Tough road back'

A four-time Tour de France champion is backmost connected the motorcycle aft a terrible clang resulted successful him being airlifted to a hospital.

Chris Froome suffered large injuries successful a "serious grooming crash" backmost successful August and was airlifted to a infirmary successful Toulon, France.

Froome suffered a pneumothorax, 5 breached ribs and a lumbar vertebra fracture that enactment his cycling vocation successful jeopardy.

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Chris Froome celebrates astatine the Tour de France.  (Tim de Waele/Corbis via Getty Images)

However, Froome posted connected societal media that helium was riding again.

"It’s been a pugnacious roadworthy backmost aft my latest crash, but it feels truthful bully to yet beryllium retired present spinning the legs and connected the roadworthy again," Froome wrote with a selfie connected Instagram. "Every setback teaches you something... this 1 reminded maine to dilatory down, heal and bask the elemental things successful life."

Froome's archetypal Tour de France triumph came successful 2013. He past won 3 consecutive aft losing successful 2014, becoming the archetypal idiosyncratic to support the rubric since Lance Armstrong earlier his 7 victories were stripped. 

Four-time Tour de France victor Chris Froome suffered galore injuries successful a "serious" clang successful August.  (Tim De Waele/Corbis via Getty Images)

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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 Critérium du Dauphiné, an lawsuit helium utilized to fine-tune his bid for a record-equaling 5th Tour title. In the accident, helium broke his close femur, elbow and ribs.

Overall leader's yellowish jersey Britain's Christopher Froome rides during the 32 km idiosyncratic time-trial and seventeenth signifier of the 100th variation of the Tour de France cycling contention connected July 17, 2013, betwixt Embrun and Chorges, southeastern France.  (JEFF PACHOUD/AFP via Getty Images)

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Froome has been signed with Israel-Premier Tech since 2021, but with the declaration soon expiring, combined with this crash, his vocation could beryllium successful jeopardy.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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