Froome posted a picture on social media following the operation, restating his goals of getting back to full fitness in time for next summer's Tour de France and the Olympic road race in Japan.

Newcastle United has a tradition where players and staff greet one another with a handshake every morning but manager Steve Bruce admitted: 'We've stopped on the advice of the doctor'.

Holding the Olympics in empty stadiums (Shizuoka velodrome pictured today) could be the best way to avoid calling it off completely, UK Cycling chief Stephen Park has claimed.

Team Ineos sporting director Nicolas Portal has tragically passed away at the age of 40. A statement from Team Ineos said that the Frenchman died at his home in Andorra on Tuesday afternoon.

The Tour has not been cancelled since 1946 when France was recovering from the War but has now been cancelled is in its 107th year after France's lockdown extension.

Chris Froome has thanked French doctors for helping him get back on his bike after a horror crash last year left him with a broken leg. He posted a training video to Instagram on Thursday.

Chris Froome has shown off his spectacular recovery from his horror leg break 10 months ago as he posted a video pushing hard on the exercise bike.

JANE FRYER: As they stood outside the Old Bailey yesterday, Charlotte Brown's family were a vision of dignity, strength and integrity. Everything indeed that James 'Jack' Shepherd lacks

JANE FRYER: This is a story of self-belief, stamina, serendipity, shelves groaning with championship silverware — and two very unlikely heroes.

JANE FRYER: Allen McCloud, 59, is the businessman behind the swingers club at the Croydon Hall Hotel, in the sleepy village of Rodhuish, population 293, near Minehead in Somerset.

JANE FRYER: Exactly four years ago, a brand new, specially- designed post office opened in the back of the Dandelion gift shop on the gorgeous honey-stoned high street of this Cotswolds town.

Richard Dinan announced that the technology for nuclear fusion would soon be available in his rented warehouse on a business park on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, writes JANE FRYER.

On Wednesday, Boris was spotted in a Tesco Express in Islington, close to his former marital home. Rucksack on back, crumpled as ever, he was in a hurry and, according to a witness.

JANE FRYER lifts the lid on the Three Tenors - Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo, the European opera singers adept at transporting their fans to a higher plane.

JANE FRYER: The Stroud climate change march started yesterday with just one man who arrived early and waited patiently under the anti-slavery arch in this staunchly liberal Gloucestershire town.

Retired engineer Richard Keedwell, 71, has spent nearly three years, attended seven court hearings and spent £30,000 of his sons' inheritance disputing a £100 speeding fine.

During an alarmingly meandering and sweary after-dinner speech for online LGBT newspaper PinkNews earlier this month, Dawn Butler declared that almost all giraffes were gay.

JANE FRYER: John Richards has impressively bushy eyebrows, two children, a grandchild, an amicably divorced wife, a passion for detective novels and a vast, exacting brain.

JANE FRYER: Over the past six decades his art has embraced everything from German mythology to astronomy; maths to comparative religion; politics to war. And all the while, become bigger.

The Rev Chris is the hottest thing in the Church of England right now. Not just in terms of his fame - he has more than 117,000 Instagram followers and is a massive hit on YouTube channels.

JANE FRYER: Bob Weighton, of Alton, Hampshire neither drinks nor smokes. 'I tried one of my brother's cigarettes when I was 12, was sick and I've never smoked since,' he says.

With panic-buying leaving empty shelves on supermarket floors, the Daily Mail has gone to the UK's biggest loo roll factory, Essity in Manchester, to see if its ready to meet demand.

JANE FRYER visited Emily Duncan, 42, and her husband, Henry, who live in Dumfries and Galloway. They own a flock of Valais Blacknose sheep, which have hairy black faces and comically fluffy coats.

JANE FRYER: Every weekend and holiday, Cameron Newham is out from dawn to dusk, in rain, sun, hail and biting winds, fulfilling his quest to photograph England's rural parish churches.

JANE FRYER: Certainly it will be beautiful and awesome and, for those with binoculars and telescopes, there will be an awful lot to see.

JANE FRYER: By the time he was 23, Ronan O'Rahilly had fled his native Ireland for London, was running a successful club in Soho, The Scene and set up a record label.

A.N WILSON: Pays tribute to wine connoisseur Auberon Waugh in time for the republish of the 1980s Waugh On Wine - where Auberon says wine should have 'bizarre side-tastes' including rotting wood.

Prince Albert's cruel notes to Queen Victoria shatter their mythic love story - he called her 'my child' and cut her down - saying 'I feel the dreadful waste of most precious time, and of energies' with her.

A.N. WILSON: Peter Phillips' tacky and absurd milk advertisement, reported in yesterday's Daily Mail, has provoked understandable laughter and contempt.

There is no hiding from the truth. This was a dreadful night for the Conservatives, Brexit and a future for this country that had looked remarkably bright.

Anyone tuning in to the airwaves over the weekend might be forgiven for believing Theresa May lost the election, while Jeremy Corbyn led Labour to a resounding victory.

What on Earth do Tory Remoaners think they are playing at? Don't they realise that by courting Labour support they could sink their party – and hand the keys of No 10 to Jeremy Corbyn?

Having ruined his own legacy with Project Fear, David Cameron has treacherously suggested that there will be 'pressure for a soft Brexit' following last week's election result. Has he no shame?

The similarities between the Grenfell fire and Lakanal House, which caught fire in 2009 (pictured), are frightening - yet it seems lessons were not learned by those who should be protecting us.

But though the perpetrator of this ghastly crime may have different coloured skin from the others, their motivation was the same – to sow hate and division in our tolerant society.

If Corbyn truly believed in democracy, he’d roundly condemn today’s ‘Day of Rage’, organised by the storm troops of the hard Left to bring London to a halt and help overthrow the Government.

The decision of consumer goods giant Unilever to abandon plans for the relocation of its corporate headquarters from London to Rotterdam is a spectacular victory on every conceivable level.

If there’s one thing voters hate, it’s a party wracked by civil war. If it can’t govern itself, why should it be trusted to govern the country? Let’s consider the alternative.

Loyalty and respect were not in evidence yesterday, as hard-line Tory Brexiteers turned on UK Prime Minister Theresa May (pictured) in a deeply unedifying display of petulant defiance.

Businesses were exultant. Billions of pounds in investment funds, kept on hold while uncertainty prevailed, seemed about to be unleashed. The pound perked up and share prices rose.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: This was far more than just a bad and humiliating day for Theresa May and her deal. It was the day Brexit itself was pushed to the very brink.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: As British MPs prepare to vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal, their choice is simple: provide the certainty the nation yearns for – or lead us into a dark and hazardous unknown.

Exactly 1,000 days ago today, the British electorate went to the ballot box for the EU referendum. How long ago it now seems! Today the dream, if not dead, is on life support.

Her Withdrawal Agreement Bill is seemingly dead in the water, and as events in Downing Street yesterday so brutally demonstrated, her support and authority have evaporated.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The inquiry into allegations of a VIP sex abuse ring codenamed Operation Midland ranks as the most disgraceful episode in the recent history of the Metropolitan Police.

So this is it. We have arrived at the moment when Parliament can finally end this Brexit purgatory. Alternatively, they could continue to put petty politics before the national interest.

For the first time in 47 years, the country that gave the globe Magna Carta, parliamentary democracy, the industrial revolution and human rights, will once again be truly sovereign.

CHARLES SALE: Sky Sports’ purchase of the new Nations League rights from UEFA is seen as a strong sign that they plan to bid to regain the Champions League next year.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: An FA council meeting on October 24 looks like being pivotal to the proposed £600million sale of Wembley to Fulham owner Shahid Khan.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: The Premier League are set to bankroll the Professional Footballers Association for another three years despite concern over Gordon Taylor's control.