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FROOME HOSPITALISED AFTER SMASH
Paisley Daily Express
|August 29, 2025
CYCLING Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome is in a stable condition awaiting surgery after a training accident left him with a fractured vertebrae, collapsed lung and five broken ribs.
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The British rider was on a training ride on Wednesday when the accident occurred.
He was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Toulon on the French Riviera.
The 40-year-old was set to undergo an operation on his back injury yesterday.
This story is from the August 29, 2025 edition of Paisley Daily Express.
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