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Chris Froome is focusing on winning a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title next year after the horrific injuries he suffered in a crash ruled him out of this year’s edition

Chris Froome to focus on Fifth Tour de France title next year

The 34-year-old Briton is recovering well from the accident in France on June 12th where here was blown off his bike and broke his neck, femur, elbow, hip and ribs.

Froome isundergoing three to four hours of physio and three hours of exercises a day, told Team Ineos in his first interview since the accident strange as it sounded his injuries could have been far worse.

“It’s safe to say I’m ahead of all the predictions made initially of how long it would take,” he said, “The news from the surgeon when he said I could make a full recovery and there’s nothing stopping me — that’s all I wanted to hear at that point. From then, everything was so positive. I was incredibly lucky not to be more seriously injured.”

Froome said all he was targetting was being alongside his team-mates at next year’s Tour de France, “For me the underlying goal is to get to the start line in 2020 and be at a similar or better position than I was this year,” he said. “That’s what is driving me at the moment.”

Froome, who will have strong competition from within the team as to who is team leader next year with both Bernal and 2018 winner Geraint Thomas likely to be lining up, said his initial thought after coming off his bike was would he be fit for this year’s Tour de France, “I can remember lying on the ground and the first responders coming over to me,” said Froome. “My coach Tim Kerrison, Garry Blem, my mechanic, and Servais Knaven, my director, were all in the car behind me. “I can remember speaking to them and my first question was ‘can I get back on my bike’ and ‘am I going to be alright for the Tour de France?’.

“They very quickly put that out of my mind. They made it very clear that I wasn’t moving anywhere and I should lie still and that I wouldn’t be carrying on the rest of the Criterium du Dauphine race.”

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Froome, who admitted he could “barely breathe after undergoing surgery”, said he found it tough to come to terms with his emotions the day after the accident.

“It was scary when I came round the morning after the operation and felt how hopeless I was lying in that bed,” he said, “Just 24 hours previously I had hoped to win the Dauphine and it was polar opposites. It was quite hard coming to terms with that.”

Froome says the wave of sympathy for him has also been a factor in his desire to return to the fray and bid for the yellow jersey once more.

“It’s been incredible the number of messages I’ve received in hospital, at home and throughout the Tour de France,” he said. “It’s been amazing and just really heartwarming and motivational for me to see how much I’ve been missed in the race this year. It’s motivation for me to want to get back there in the future.”

 
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