Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

[DBotero]

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I don't really understand why Froome would be thinking of limiting his loses in a TT. He used to be a guy that took time on his rivals in both TTs and the mountains. In many ways, his TTing ability was his ace card. I don't see why he would need to sacrifice his TTing ability for climbing ability - all he needs to do is have the form from 2012/13 where he was the best at both.

Froome's climbing performance in 2013 was good, but it's also overrated due to the poor competition. Nilbali climbed as well or slightly better last year. With Nibali and a stronger (compared to 2013) Quintana and Contador to beat, if Froome is going to win this year he will have to climb better than 2013, and I think he knows it.

Froome's climbing performance in 2013 was insane,not overrated.He is 3rd on Ax3 Domaines all times top and climbed Mount Ventoux as fast as Lance did in 2002.You want him to climb even faster,oh my

 

[SlickMongoose]

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I don't really understand why Froome would be thinking of limiting his loses in a TT. He used to be a guy that took time on his rivals in both TTs and the mountains. In many ways, his TTing ability was his ace card. I don't see why he would need to sacrifice his TTing ability for climbing ability - all he needs to do is have the form from 2012/13 where he was the best at both.

Froome's climbing performance in 2013 was good, but it's also overrated due to the poor competition. Nilbali climbed as well or slightly better last year. With Nibali and a stronger (compared to 2013) Quintana and Contador to beat, if Froome is going to win this year he will have to climb better than 2013, and I think he knows it.

Froome's climbing performance in 2013 was insane,not overrated.He is 3rd on Ax3 Domaines all times top and climbed Mount Ventoux as fast as Lance did in 2002.You want him to climb even faster,oh my

Well, Nibali climbed as well last year, like I said. If Froome can't go faster than 2013 he'll finish 4th.

 

[46&twoWheels]

Froome is just one step away from starting to deplete his muscles,those helping him propel his bike.At the same time his muscles are weight,not dead weight but still weight to carry on the mountains.
If it were possible to eliminate additional weight like biceps,triceps, while retaining only muscles in the legs, I think many of them would be crazy enough to do it

 

[DBotero]

Great day for Froome today with G.and Stannard doing an amazing job.

 

[PremierAndrew]

Suddenly, Froome looks a lot more likely to win this Tour

 

[LaFlorecita]

Why did Froome not want to take more time? Makes 0 sense to me.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Great day for Froome today with G.and Stannard doing an amazing job.

Indeed! I did not see that coming however there are still some very tough stages in the next few days for him to get through.

 

[rick james]

he looked good today

 

[Punkan]

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Why did Froome not want to take more time? Makes 0 sense to me.

What should he have done more you think? Use up Stannard and G even more and put himself in risk if something would have happen?

Froome and Sky did well. Froome even managed to sprint away form Contador and took 4s on him.

 

[Baldinger]

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Why did Froome not want to take more time? Makes 0 sense to me.

What should he have done more you think? Use up Stannard and G even more and put himself in risk if something would have happen?

Froome and Sky did well. Froome even managed to sprint away form Contador and took 4s on him.

Sky riders were boring and that's the biggest crime i cycling.

 

[Punkan]

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Why did Froome not want to take more time? Makes 0 sense to me.

What should he have done more you think? Use up Stannard and G even more and put himself in risk if something would have happen?

Froome and Sky did well. Froome even managed to sprint away form Contador and took 4s on him.

Sky riders were boring and that's the biggest crime i cycling.

Tactical I would say. Stupid to burn out G and Stannard completely considering they are Froome's most important domestiques on tuesday - a really critical stage for Froome.

 

[PremierAndrew]

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Why did Froome not want to take more time? Makes 0 sense to me.

Very good tactics. Burn out Stannard and G for ~10 seconds, and be completely f*ed if he got a puncture. Not sure why BMC didn't start riding earlier but Sky rode a perfect race today

 

[Dog]

You can't please Sky haters.

Biggest question mark lays over BMC, who could have put minutes more into Quintana and Nibali had they committed their numbers to the front.

 

[capuldemetal]

Unzue is happy.And NQ looks calm.(via twitter)

 

[ILovecycling]

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Unzue is happy.And NQ looks calm.(via twitter)

bullshits

Froome did a right decisions today, we will see tomorrow.

 

[dacooley]

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Why did Froome not want to take more time? Makes 0 sense to me.

thats more than understandable cuz you hate froome

 

[JRanton]

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Why did Froome not want to take more time? Makes 0 sense to me.

Don't be silly. It's a numbers game. BMC (5 or 6?), Tinkoff (5) and EQS (5) had more riders than Sky (3) so you don't start using up your men with 50km to go in case there are more crosswinds forecasted for later in the stage (which initailly was supposed to be the case with more crosswinds forecasted at 20km to go).

If anyone deserves criticism then it's BMC but of course they were thinking about Dennis in yellow.

 

[rick james]

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Why did Froome not want to take more time? Makes 0 sense to me.

What should he have done more you think? Use up Stannard and G even more and put himself in risk if something would have happen?

Froome and Sky did well. Froome even managed to sprint away form Contador and took 4s on him.

Sky riders were boring and that's the biggest crime i cycling.

Really????

 

[del1962]

Great for Chris that he has to superb crosswind riders G and Yogi on his team looking after him, he should buy them a pint tonight.

 

[Dog]

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Why did Froome not want to take more time? Makes 0 sense to me.

What should he have done more you think? Use up Stannard and G even more and put himself in risk if something would have happen?

Froome and Sky did well. Froome even managed to sprint away form Contador and took 4s on him.

Sky riders were boring and that's the biggest crime i cycling.

Really????

Yep, not doping. The biggest crime in cycling is protecting your leader, and not isolating him by taking a pointless turn at the front with two riders.

 

[capuldemetal]

They are.Could of worked and put more seconds into Nibali and NQ.But no.Sky train.

 

[MatParker117]

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They are.Could of worked and put more seconds into Nibali and NQ.But no.Sky train.

Rest of his team were in the Nibali/Quintana group sitting on.

 

[Richeypen]

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They are.Could of worked and put more seconds into Nibali and NQ.But no.Sky train.

Rest of his team were in the Nibali/Quintana group sitting on.

Plus Stannard could hardly hold a wheel at the end. Not expecting anything from Sky this week, they will be wanting to stay fresh for the TTT

 

[rick james]

some folks hate for Sky/froome blinds them

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Why did Froome not want to take more time? Makes 0 sense to me.

Very good tactics. Burn out Stannard and G for ~10 seconds, and be completely f*ed if he got a puncture. Not sure why BMC didn't start riding earlier but Sky rode a perfect race today

Rule #1 of cycling you try to take as much time as possible on your rivals for GC (unless you're already 10 minutes ahead). Stannard and Thomas aren't some shitty riders, a few turns wouldn't have burnt them out. Bennati, Rogers and Kreuziger, and Stybar and Kwiatkowski (won't mention Tony because he's a machine) did loads of turns and only got dropped with a few 100m to go or because of a mechanical (Bennati). You're not going to convince me that Yogi and G are worse on the flat than Kreuziger and Rogers.

Don't worry though, I thought BMC's tactics were just as questionable.