# Cycling: Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome says he will delay his return to competition after suffering knee pain while training. The 36-year-old Kenya-born British cyclist believes he pushed himself too hard in the early weeks of training as he seeks to improve on an underwhelming season last year. Froome, also a two-time Vuelta champion, has failed to return to the top of the tree since suffering horrific injuries in a crash prior to the fourth stage of the Criterium du Dauphine in 2019.