London (AFP)
Britain's Chris Froome, four-time Tour de France winner, will leave Ineos at the end of the season, the British cycling team announced on Thursday.
"Chris' current contract expires in December and we have decided not to extend it," said team leader Dave Brailsford.
Chris Froome, 35, spent 10 years with the British team, named Sky until 2019, of which he was the main headliner, winning the Tour de France four times (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017) and the two other Grands Tours, the Vuelta (2011, 2017) and the Giro in 2018.
In recent years, he had suffered more and more competition within the team often described as a steamroller on the Tour de France.
His teammate and compatriot Geraint Thomas had been privileged for the victory during the 2018 Big Loop, and it was the Colombian Egan Bernal, 23, who won the Tour 2019 in the absence of Froome, victim of a serious falls some time before departure.
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