TOULON, France — Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome will undergo surgery on Thursday after “a serious training crash” that saw the British cyclist airlifted to a hospital in France.

Froome’s team Israel-Premier Tech said he was “stable and did not sustain any head injuries” but added that scans confirmed a pneumothorax, five broken ribs, and a lumbar vertebrae fracture.

Froome was taken to hospital in Toulon by helicopter on Wednesday after the accident, which happened while he was training near Saint-Raphaël. 3

His team said “no other cyclists or vehicles were involved.”

His last victory was the Giro d’Italia in 2018. 3

He also won the Spanish Vuelta twice, in 2011 and 2017, bookending his four triumphs in the Tour — the first in 2013 followed by a hat trick of ti

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