Cycling: Froome operated to remove a plate from his hip

London (AFP)

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has been successfully operated to remove a hip plate and a pin in his right elbow, the British rider announced on Twitter on Friday.

"With less equipment at my hip and my elbow," wrote Froome above a photo of him smiling in bed at the CHU Saint-Etienne, stating that "everything went perfectly".

Froome had suffered fractures in June in a cervical vertebra, femur, elbow, hip and ribs after falling during a reconnaissance before a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné.

This fall had left fears that his career was over at 34 years.

The rider still hopes to participate in the Tour de France and the Olympic Games next year, as he has matched his message with # roadtoTDF2020 (en route to the 2020 Tour de France) and # roadtotokyo2020 (en route to Tokyo 2020).

"There are 8 months left (by the beginning of the next Tour, ed.) .I still need two or three months to correct the weaknesses inherited from my fall but I hope in a few months to find the level I had last season, "he said in mid-October, during the presentation of the course of the next Great Loop.

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