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Christopher Clive Froome, OBE (born

20 May 1985) is a British road racing cyclist who

currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Israel Start-Up Nation. He has won seven Grand Tours: four editions

of the Tour de France (in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017), one Giro d'Italia (2018) and the Vuelta a España twice

(2011 and 2017). He has also won

several other stage races, and the Velo d'Or three times. Froome has also won two Olympic bronze

medals in road time trials, in 2012 and 2016, and also took bronze in the 2017 World Championships. Froome was born in Kenya to British

parents and grew up there and in South Africa. Since 2011 he's been a resident

in Monaco. At the age of 22, Froome turned professional with Team

Konica Minolta. In 2008, he joined the team Barloworld. The same year

he moved to Italy and started to ride under a British licence. In 2010,

he moved to Team Sky and quickly became one of the team's key cyclists. Froome

made his breakthrough as a Grand Tour contender

during the 2011 Vuelta a España where

he finished second overall, later promoted to first, retrospectively becoming

the first British cyclist to win a Grand Tour cycling

event. At the 2012 Tour de France, riding as a super-domestique for Bradley Wiggins, Froome won stage seven and

finished second overall, behind Wiggins.His first recognised multi-stage race

win came in 2013, in the Tour of Oman, followed by wins in the Critérium International,

the Tour de Romandie, the Critérium du Dauphiné, and

the Tour de France. In the 2014 Tour de France, he

retired after multiple crashes. In 2015, he won his second Critérium du Dauphiné and

his second Tour de France. He won a third Tour de France in 2016 and became the

first man since Miguel Induráin in

1995 to successfully defend his title. He won his fourth Tour de France in 2017,

followed by successive wins at the 2017 Vuelta a España and

the 2018 Giro d'Italia, his

first victories in both races. These achievements made him the first

cyclist to win the Tour–Vuelta double since the Vuelta was moved to September,

the first rider to achieve any Grand Tour double in nearly a decade, and the

first to hold all three Grand Tour winners'

jerseys at the same time since Bernard Hinault in 1983. Throughout his career Froome has

faced a series of allegations that he exploited a loophole in cycling’s

anti-doping regulations to use a performance-enhancing drug.  In 2019 a serious training crash before

the Critérium du Dauphiné halted

Froome's career, after he broke numerous bones including his pelvis, femur and

four ribs. Although he managed to recover following surgery to return to the

peloton in 2020, he struggled to regain any of his former form. He left Ineos Grenadiers at the end of 2020 to join Israel Start-Up Nation but

his form struggles continued through the 2021 season, with Froome failing to

contend seriously in stage races since his accident. Despite these struggles,

Froome remains the most successful general classification rider still active in

the peloton as of 2021 .