4-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome (41) confirms his retirement from professional cycling

For a long time, it remained unclear whether we would ever see Chris Froome back in the peloton as a professional cyclist. Now, it seems all the speculation has finally come to an end. Sporza ran into the former Tour winner in Barcelona, and when asked point-blank whether or not he had retired, he gave a definitive answer.

In his prime, Froome was the best general classification rider in the world. He claimed the overall victory in the Tour de France no fewer than four times and also won the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España once each. As a result, the Brit is one of the few riders to have won all three Grand Tours—an exclusive club that Jonas Vingegaard joined this year.

It was a serious crash that marked the beginning of the end of Froome’s career. In any case, he never regained his former form after that. Things went wrong again in late 2025, when he was badly injured after a collision with a car: a collapsed lung, broken ribs, and a fracture in his lower spine sidelined him for a long time.

He hadn’t given up yet, but understandably, in this case—Froome turned 41 in May—it was becoming increasingly difficult. In the meantime, he turned his attention to other things. Still, there was a (very) long silence regarding his professional career, and so it became increasingly unlikely that we would see the Brit back in the pro peloton.

He never confirmed it himself, but when Sporza asked him point-blank on Thursday if he had retired, Froome replied firmly. “Yes. Unfortunately, there was that crash last summer—that wasn’t how I wanted it to end. But even then, I knew it was over.” This brings a somewhat subdued end to a truly impressive career.