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Maybe is the best attemp of a rider has was naver raced 2 GT in the same yea, and he raced 2 in a row, no Giro Vuelta.
He is able to do that, of course. if there is some fresher rider at a hight level can beat him, but I wouldnt be surprised.
First time you ride a GT you are not going to win, what quintana did 2 years ago is just for people touched by angels. He was lucky on a soft first week, but anyway was amazing.
But first time contador rode le Tour did bad, the same for almost everybody, your bidy need to adapat to a new thing, and the forst time you double is the same.
The normal evolution for arider use to be:
You ride Vuelta or Giro to help the team so the team see how you go in 3 weeks, 23 years old.
You ride just Tour to know the race or Giro-Vuelta, with 24
You ride Le Tour to do a great GC and maybe another GT to train or to look for stages, with 25
You can try Giro-Tour or Tour Vuelta with the possibility to do de double,with 26
You need that progression...
Froome first rode Tour, very young considering he started late cycling and it was his forst year in Europe and he was amazing in the stage of Alp Shuez and the ITTs.
Later he rode 2 years just Giro, with his illness.
Later he rode Vuelta, without the illness and with more experience...
Later he rode Tour and Vuelta, without rode before 2 GT in a year, so 1 and 4 is very good level, more considering that year Vuelta had a good level as well and a parcous not very good for him. He was young, not in age, but yes considering his cyclist age
Maybe he cant do it, by now is when he can try it with possibilities, becouse he passed the process.
Angliru said:Taxus4a said:Brullnux said:Tour-Vuelta is hard. You only have 3 weeks to recover, something which is even more of a factor this year with so many big mountain stages in week 2. Froome won't do it unless he has to, i.e a DNF in the tour or not a podium. If he wins it then I doubt very much him going to the Vuelta.
Froome said to the Vuelta he will be there if there is a normal ITT, and there is one, 39 Km at the end, the minimun a serious race has to put, except as this year, le Tour has windy stages, cobbles, etc.. in first week.
Pinot would have prefered lees first week and 50 km ITt at the end, becouse he did very well last year in that ITT, and he showed this year he is not bad in ITT... but this stages where you must to be well posistioning always you depend too much of the team and in general are no good for pure climbers, although Quintana and Purito are do'ing very well.
I dindt know Purito wanst in the Vuelta, as he help to design hard Andorra stage...
To double seriously Tour-Vuelta to fight in both of them for GC is demanding, and he is not so young now.
With Quintana, Landa, Froome, Aru, Batancur (who is recovered) and for sure others competitive riders who are now in le Tour, will be a great race. For Saxo.. maybe Majka? He wasted all the team in that media campaign Giro-Tour double
Froome has stated that he doesn't think he is capable of competing for the podium in consecutive grand tours, based on his only attempt in 2012. By the 3rd week he was toast.
Maybe is the best attemp of a rider has was naver raced 2 GT in the same yea, and he raced 2 in a row, no Giro Vuelta.
He is able to do that, of course. if there is some fresher rider at a hight level can beat him, but I wouldnt be surprised.
First time you ride a GT you are not going to win, what quintana did 2 years ago is just for people touched by angels. He was lucky on a soft first week, but anyway was amazing.
But first time contador rode le Tour did bad, the same for almost everybody, your bidy need to adapat to a new thing, and the forst time you double is the same.
The normal evolution for arider use to be:
You ride Vuelta or Giro to help the team so the team see how you go in 3 weeks, 23 years old.
You ride just Tour to know the race or Giro-Vuelta, with 24
You ride Le Tour to do a great GC and maybe another GT to train or to look for stages, with 25
You can try Giro-Tour or Tour Vuelta with the possibility to do de double,with 26
You need that progression...
Froome first rode Tour, very young considering he started late cycling and it was his forst year in Europe and he was amazing in the stage of Alp Shuez and the ITTs.
Later he rode 2 years just Giro, with his illness.
Later he rode Vuelta, without the illness and with more experience...
Later he rode Tour and Vuelta, without rode before 2 GT in a year, so 1 and 4 is very good level, more considering that year Vuelta had a good level as well and a parcous not very good for him. He was young, not in age, but yes considering his cyclist age
Maybe he cant do it, by now is when he can try it with possibilities, becouse he passed the process.