{"id":11075,"date":"2025-02-24T09:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/chris-froome-suffers-broken-collarbone-in-crash-at-uae-tour\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:21:45","slug":"chris-froome-suffers-broken-collarbone-in-crash-at-uae-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/chris-froome-suffers-broken-collarbone-in-crash-at-uae-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Froome suffers broken collarbone in crash at UAE Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome suffered a broken collarbone in a crash at the UAE Tour.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 39-year-old Briton sustained the injury in a mass pile-up in the opening 10km of Sunday&#8217;s final stage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His team Israel-Premier Tech said: &#8220;A CT scan confirmed a fracture to the right clavicle. Chris will be examined tomorrow [Monday] by an orthopedic surgeon to find out if an operation will be necessary to stabilise his fracture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The injury casts doubt on how much Froome can compete in what is expected to be his final season in cycling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two-time Olympic bronze medallist, who has also won two Vuelta a Espana titles and the Giro d&#8217;Italia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosport.com\/cycling\/vuelta-a-espana\/2025\/chris-froome-exclusive-british-cycling-great-suggests-retirement_sto20064534\/story.shtml\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">hinted in December<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> he may retire after this year&#8217;s Vuelta in September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/clyz2zpevkqo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome suffered a broken collarbone in a crash at the UAE Tour. The 39-year-old Briton sustained the injury in a mass pile-up in the opening 10km of Sunday&#8217;s final stage. His team Israel-Premier Tech said: &#8220;A CT scan confirmed a fracture to the right clavicle. Chris will be examined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11077,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11075\/revisions\/11077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}