Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome announces his retirement from professional cycling, ending a career spanning the 2010s. The announcement follows a serious training incident in August 2025 in which Froome suffered life-threatening injuries, and he has not raced since then. Multiple outlets report that the injury prevented him from returning to competition.
Froome, 41, is widely recognized for major results during the 2010s, including seven Grand Tour wins. One outlet also notes that his last recorded Grand Tour victory came when he won the Giro d’Italia in 2018, and that he had not won a race since that point. The various accounts align on the timing and impact of the 2025 incident as the reason he remains unable to race.
With the retirement, Froome’s long-standing presence in elite stage racing concludes, after years defined by Tour success and continued efforts to compete following earlier major wins.
