Cycling: Froome unhurt but bike 'totaled' after hit-and-run case
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[May 09, 2017]
(Reuters) - Tour de France
champion Chris Froome said on Tuesday that he had escaped unhurt
while having his bike written off by an impatient car driver in a
hit-and-run incident.
The 31-year-old three-time winner of the world's biggest bike race,
tweeted a picture of the twisted remains of his "totaled" training
bike, saying he had been deliberately knocked off by the driver.
The Team Sky rider said he was "okay" after the incident that
happened during a training ride near his home in the south of
France.
Sky News reported that it understood Froome would be reporting the
incident to police.
"Just got rammed on purpose by an impatient driver who followed me
onto the pavement! Thankfully I'm okay. Bike totaled. Driver kept
going!", the Team Sky rider wrote, adding an emoji of hands clasped
in prayer.
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Team Sky said the Monaco-based Froome had continued his training
session after returning home to get a spare bike.
Froome is training for June's Criterium du Dauphine, his familiar
warm-up event before the Tour de France between July 1-23. He is
favorite to win the event for a third successive year.
The incident was just another reminder of the continued perils faced
by professional cyclists on the road during training rides.
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Chris Froome (GBR) of United Kingdom after the race. REUTERS/Eric
Gaillard
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It occurred less than three weeks since the death of 37-year-old
Michele Scarponi, the former Giro d'Italia winner, who was struck by
a van while training in Italy.
His team, Astana, described the death of Scarponi, a husband and
father of two, as a 'tragedy too big to be written'.
(Reporting by Ian Chadband; editing by Sudipto Ganguly) [© 2017 Thomson Reuters. All
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