Update: The training camp that Chris Froome reportedly left took place in early December and does not appear to be recent.

Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has reportedly left Team Ineos' training camp early as a serious setback to his recovery from injuries sustained in a crash at the 2019 Criterium du Dauphiné, one of the team's directors told Italian media that he did not know if the 34-year-old Englishman would recover.

Bicisport reported that Froome left the team's Spanish camp after only two days and that his recovery was said to be "slow."

Froome broke his hip, elbow, femur, sternum, and vertebrae in a warm-up crash at the Criterium du Dauphiné last June, and underwent a second surgery in November to remove a metal plate in his hip and screws in his elbow. [However, in a recent report in Bicisport and SpazioCiclismo.com, Dario David Cioni, sport director of Team Ineos, questioned whether Froome could return to his Grand Tour-winning form.

"After two days of training in Spain, Froome has returned home in search of his fifth yellow jersey. He is not in good shape and who knows if he will recover," Cioni said.

Froome had hoped to add a record-tying fifth yellow jersey to his collection last year, but a crash at Dauphin put him out for the season before defending champion and Ineos teammate Geraint Thomas, the young Colombian Egan Bernal paved the way for him to grab the race.

With the possibility of Froome's return, Bernal and Ineos questioned the young Colombian's plans for a complete Tour de France defense and instead set their sights on the Giro d'Italia. This latest news fueled speculation that Bernal would skip the Giro and focus on the Tour, with Thomas and Giro champion and new teammate Richard Karapas vying for Maria Rosa.