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Tom Davidson

Chris Froome is 'keeping the door open' to racing in 2026 - could he ride on?

Chris Froome speaking with a microphone wearing cycling clothing and a helmet.

Don’t believe everything you read on ProCyclingStats. If you were to head over to the database website now, and navigate to Chris Froome, you would see an ominous sentence at the top of his page: Will retire on 2025-12-31.

The phrasing makes it sound definite, a total certainty. Froome will retire, end of story. And yet, in the words of the four-time Tour de France winner himself, there’s nothing concrete about it, not yet anyway.

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