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Four-time Tour de France winner Froome retires
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- Froome won the last of his four Tour de France titles in 2017
- Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has brought an end to his illustrious career in professional cycling.
- Froome's wife later said doctors discovered a pericardial rupture - an injury where the sac that surrounds the heart is torn - during surgery and were able to repair it.
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Froome won the last of his four Tour de France titles in 2017
Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has brought an end to his illustrious career in professional cycling.
The 41-year-old British rider has not raced since a serious crash in August 2025 when he collided head-on with a road sign at more than 30mph and suffered five broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a lumbar vertebrae fracture.
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