Chris Froome in intensive care after 55 kilometres an hour crash
BeSpoke: at the Tour de France
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🗓️ 12 June 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Britain's Chris Froome is in intensive care after crashing into a wall at 55 kilometres an hour during a reconnaissance ride at the Dauphine stage race in south-east France. He will no longer compete in this year’s Tour de France. Sir Dave Brailsford - team principal of Team Ineos - joins BeSpoke to update them on Froome's injuries after the six-time Grand Tour winner was airlifted to hospital with multiple fractures.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Bispoke, the BBC cycling podcast with Tom Fordice. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to a special edition of Bespoke. |
| 0:09.1 | Usually we record this program on a Wednesday morning. |
| 0:11.8 | That's what we did today. |
| 0:12.9 | And just as we had wrapped up, news broke of a serious accident for Britain's Chris Frum, |
| 0:18.6 | out at the Dofinae. |
| 0:20.5 | And as a result, we've had to do this special programme. |
| 0:23.6 | Joining me, as always, Jeremy Whittle, the Tour de France correspondent for The Guardian, |
| 0:28.6 | and Gareth Rees Owen, who will be covering this year's tour for Five Live. |
| 0:33.6 | Jeremy, the first we knew was that Chris Freeman had some sort of accident. |
| 0:39.3 | As the story has developed, we found out quite how serious it turns out to be. |
| 0:44.9 | Yes, it's now being described as multiple serious injuries by Timinios in the last statement that they sent out. |
| 0:52.2 | It sounds actually really, really, |
| 0:54.3 | really much worse than we initially understood to be. |
| 0:57.9 | He's broken his femur, |
| 0:59.6 | his elbow, and he's got fractured ribs as well. |
| 1:02.8 | And apparently, according to Wootpool's his teammate, |
| 1:05.1 | he went down really, really hard, |
| 1:07.4 | and it was really bad at about 65 to 70 kilometres now, which is high speed. |
| 1:14.5 | This is something, Gareth, which will change not only Chris Frum's year, but the year in its |
| 1:19.8 | entirety for Team Ineos, it will change the Tour de France as well. Let's just focus on Frum for the |
| 1:26.0 | moment. He is a man who has had a track record of crashes. |
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