Tour de France winner sustained a pericardial rupture
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Chris Froome suffered a life-threatening injury to his heart in the training crash in France last week that left him hospitalised with a broken back and broken ribs. The four-time Tour de France winner also sustained a pericardial rupture, a tear to the sac that surrounds the heart, in the crash.
“It was obviously a lot more serious than some broken bones,” his wife, Michelle Froome, told the Times. “He’s fine, but it’s going to be a long recovery process. He won’t be riding a bike for a while.”
Froome was airlifted to the Sainte Anne Toulon military hospital, in the Var, the highest level trauma centre in that part of France. His team, Israel-Premier Tech, had initially stated that the 40-year-old had suffered a collapsed lung, five broken ribs and a lumbar vertebrae fracture.
