Photo : Yuzuru SUNADA
Chris Froome (Team Sky) is set to make his final race appearance of the season at the Saitama Criterium in Japan in October, despite still recovering from a broken navicular bone in his foot.
The 2015 Tour de France winner abandoned the Vuelta a España after stage 11 due to the injury, having crashed in the opening kilometres as the peloton took on the opening climb of the stage.
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