--- description: Two crashes lead to an injured right arm title: Chris Froome, Reigning Tour de France Champion, Exits Race image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff31e5e045ee8948/69869b0f1eebf79a6a371cb3/chris-froome.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Cycling](/tag/cycling/) ## Cycling Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Reigning Tour de France Champion Exits Race After Crashes by [Hannah Goldberg](/author/hannah-goldberg/) ## Hannah Goldberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 9, 2014 4:16 PM CUT  Chris Froome of Great Britain and Team Sky chases back to the peloton after being involved in a crash just after the start of stage four of the 2014 Le Tour de France from Le Touquet-Paris-Plage to Lille on July 8, 2014. Chris Froome of Great Britain and Team Sky chases back to the peloton after being involved in a crash just after the start of stage four of the 2014 Le Tour de France from Le Touquet-Paris-Plage to Lille on July 8, 2014.Doug Pensinger—Getty Images by [Hannah Goldberg](/author/hannah-goldberg/) ## Hannah Goldberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 9, 2014 4:16 PM CUT Defending tour Tour de France champion Chris Froome bowed out of the cycling race Wednesday after crashing twice. The conditions were slick on Wednesday’s Stage 5 section, running from Ypres in Belgium to northern France. Rain poured onto the course, adding an extra challenge to an already demanding race. Froome, of the British Sky team, crashed at the 29-km mark, according to the race’s [website](http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2014/us/live/aso/ "undefined"), before eventually crashing again at the 83-km mark. He exited the 152-kilometer stage with an injured right arm. Froome injured his wrist on Tuesday after a crash in Stage 4, but was cleared to race again. “The wrist is painful and it’s certainly not ideal going into tomorrow’s cobbled stage,” Froome [said Tuesday night](http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2014/us/stage-5/news/tmp/will-froome-s-wrist-holdz.html "undefined"), “but I have a great team around me and we’ll get through the next few days as best we can.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2969783/tour-de-france-chris-froome/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2969783/tour-de-france-chris-froome/"},"headline":"Reigning Tour de France Champion Exits Race After Crashes","datePublished":"2014-07-09T16:16:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:02:48.292Z","description":"Two crashes lead to an injured right arm","url":"https://time.com/2969783/tour-de-france-chris-froome/","keywords":["Cycling","tour de france"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff31e5e045ee8948/69869b0f1eebf79a6a371cb3/chris-froome.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Hannah Goldberg","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/hannah-goldberg/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff31e5e045ee8948/69869b0f1eebf79a6a371cb3/chris-froome.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Le Tour de France 2014 - Stage Four","caption":"Le Tour de France 2014 - Stage Four","creditText":"Doug Pensinger—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/cycling/","name":"Cycling"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2969783/tour-de-france-chris-froome/","name":"Reigning Tour de France Champion Exits Race After Crashes"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Tour de France: By The Numbers","description":"Cyclists will burn a combined 19,800,000 calories by the end of this year's Tour de France.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/YWeZTQCU/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-07-03T18:04:46.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/YWeZTQCU.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/2969783/tour-de-france-chris-froome/","duration":"PT35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/2969783/tour-de-france-chris-froome/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```