Chris Froome, the four-time winner of the Tour de France who also took the 2018 Giro d’Italia and 2011 and 2017 Vuelta a España titles, has confirmed his retirement from professional cycling.
The longest retirement saga in the sport finally ended on Friday when the 41-year-old, speaking in Barcelona at the Grand Départ of this year’s Tour, said: “Unfortunately, there was that fall last summer. That wasn’t the way I wanted it to end. But even then, I knew it was over.” Asked if he had now definitively retired, he replied: “Yes.”
