A little more than a week after Christopher Froome’s accident in training, we know a little more about the circumstances of the accident and especially about the medical consequences.
It was his partner, Michelle Cound, who confided in Times. In particular, she mentioned a more alarming medical situation than initially indicated.
“It is obviously much more serious than a few fractures,” she explained. He will not bike for a while, convalescence will be long ”.
On Wednesday, August 27, the quadruple winner of the British Tour de France had had an accident in Fayence, near Toulon, in the Var. In the first moments, a question of a car that had struck him. What his Israel Prime Tech team denied the next day. Finally, the 40-year-old runner would have struck a post after being unbalanced by a median.
A problem in the heart
According to the first diagnostics, Froome suffered from a pneumothorax, five broken ribs and a fracture of a lumbar vertebra. Operated at Toulon hospital, the Briton also has a tear of the pericardial membranes around his heart. A discovery made thanks to the surgical intervention.
A pathology that is far from harmless since it can be fatal.
The former Sky runner has not won a race since 2018 by winning two stages from the Giro. Victim of a fracture of the femur, Froome never recovered from his fall in 2019 at the Critérium du Dauphiné.
The last race of the one who also calls the “Kenyan White”, in reference to his Nairobi birthplace in Kenya, is the Tour of Poland in August with a modest 68th place as a general.
