ROANNE, France (AP) — Chris Froome will miss this year’s Tour de France after a “bad crash” in training.
Team INEOS leader Dave Brailsford says the four-time champion sustained a suspected fractured femur in a 60 kph (40 mph) crash.
Brailsford says Froome was being airlifted to a hospital.
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Froome was practicing on the route of the 26-kilometer (16-mile) fourth stage of the Criterium du Dauphine race in France, which would have been the British rider’s first time-trial test this season.