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Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome confirms cycling retirement

  • ‘There was that fall last summer. I knew it was over’

  • Injuries hampered the final years of rider’s career

Chris Froome, the four-time winner of the Tour de France, who also took the 2018 Giro d’Italia and 2011 and 2017 Vuelta a España titles, has confirmed his retirement from professional racing.

The longest retirement saga in the sport finally ended on Friday evening when the 41-year-old, speaking in Barcelona at the Grand Départ of this year’s Tour, said: “Unfortunately, there was that fall last summer. That wasn’t the way I wanted it to end. But even then, I knew it was over.” Asked if he had now definitively retired from racing, he replied: “Yes.”

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Jul 3, 2026 Cycling Chris Froome Sport

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