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Publicus said:I want a super strong Froome, so there are no excuses when Quintana and Contador drop him like a bad habit
Froome was super strong at Ax3, PSM, Mont V. It's save to say that he will never climb better than on those occasions, he can only hope to reach that level again this year and the coming years.
Where would you see Quintana and Contador finishing in those stages with the form you expect them to have this year.
A minute up the road?
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SeriousSam said:Publicus said:I want a super strong Froome, so there are no excuses when Quintana and Contador drop him like a bad habit
Froome was super strong at Ax3, PSM, Mont V. It's save to say that he will never climb better than on those occasions, he can only hope to reach that level again this year and the coming years.
Where would you see Quintana and Contador finishing in those stages with the form you expect them to have this year.
A minute up the road?
Anywhere between s.t. (just maybe like 15s faster) and a lot closer than Porte was in those stages. I will never believe Porte would beat Contador and Quintana in great form after pulling the peloton earlier on the climb
SeriousSam said:Publicus said:I want a super strong Froome, so there are no excuses when Quintana and Contador drop him like a bad habit
Froome was super strong at Ax3, PSM, Mont V. It's save to say that he will never climb better than on those occasions, he can only hope to reach that level again this year and the coming years.
Where would you see Quintana and Contador finishing in those stages with the form you expect them to have this year.
A minute up the road?
He looked strong on those climbs because the opposition was weak. He got beat by TD at the vuelta last year when he tried a bonkers attack and could not drop Bertie at the dauphin with a bonkers attack.
These singular attacks do nothing over 3 weeks. When it comes to consistent climbing he cant sustain that.
When he attacked Bertie at the dauphine and could not drop him he knew it was over . Bertie gets stronger , Froome does not. So Froome can be in the best form of is life [2013?] but its not good enough against a 90% Bertie and a more aggressive Quintana or some of the other climbers and contenders who if they have the bal%s could blow the tour wide open.
Like I said I'm happy to bet you a jersey that Froome will be out of contention before the last week of the tour.
What is a 90% Bertie? I believe in 2013 he was around 90% and was humiliating bad. You need to be 100% to win tour no doubt. To say froome 2013 the most impressive gc performance post Armstrong would lose to 90% bertie is ridiculous. Even Bertie 09 would seriously struggle against froome 2013. Let's not forget that berties competition in his tour wins were far from stellar. What's more he barely won in 07 and 10.ray j willings said:SeriousSam said:Publicus said:I want a super strong Froome, so there are no excuses when Quintana and Contador drop him like a bad habit
Froome was super strong at Ax3, PSM, Mont V. It's save to say that he will never climb better than on those occasions, he can only hope to reach that level again this year and the coming years.
Where would you see Quintana and Contador finishing in those stages with the form you expect them to have this year.
A minute up the road?
He looked strong on those climbs because the opposition was weak. He got beat by TD at the vuelta last year when he tried a bonkers attack and could not drop Bertie at the dauphin with a bonkers attack.
These singular attacks do nothing over 3 weeks. When it comes to consistent climbing he cant sustain that.
When he attacked Bertie at the dauphine and could not drop him he knew it was over . Bertie gets stronger , Froome does not. So Froome can be in the best form of is life [2013?] but its not good enough against a 90% Bertie and a more aggressive Quintana or some of the other climbers and contenders who if they have the bal%s could blow the tour wide open.
Like I said I'm happy to bet you a jersey that Froome will be out of contention before the last week of the tour.
Funny you mention him losing to TD in vuelta second tour of the year. What about bertie being outclassed all of the third week (apparently where he is his strongest) in the giro last year.
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ray j willings said:SeriousSam said:Publicus said:I want a super strong Froome, so there are no excuses when Quintana and Contador drop him like a bad habit
Froome was super strong at Ax3, PSM, Mont V. It's save to say that he will never climb better than on those occasions, he can only hope to reach that level again this year and the coming years.
Where would you see Quintana and Contador finishing in those stages with the form you expect them to have this year.
A minute up the road?
He looked strong on those climbs because the opposition was weak. He got beat by TD at the vuelta last year when he tried a bonkers attack and could not drop Bertie at the dauphin with a bonkers attack.
These singular attacks do nothing over 3 weeks. When it comes to consistent climbing he cant sustain that.
When he attacked Bertie at the dauphine and could not drop him he knew it was over . Bertie gets stronger , Froome does not. So Froome can be in the best form of is life [2013?] but its not good enough against a 90% Bertie and a more aggressive Quintana or some of the other climbers and contenders who if they have the bal%s could blow the tour wide open.
Like I said I'm happy to bet you a jersey that Froome will be out of contention before the last week of the tour.
You'd think people had something better to do than troll and bait people on a cycling forum.
- Sep 1, 2012
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Thing with PSM was that the extreme heat and the nature of the stage both were favourable to Froome and as a result he was able to create a much bigger gap over Quintana than their respective levels would have suggested.
Anyway, if everything goes as planned for all the favourites, he is in for the toughest battle of his career in the Tour. And if Quintana's improvement in spring means also an improvement in July, even his usual superpeak might not be enough for Froome.
Anyway, if everything goes as planned for all the favourites, he is in for the toughest battle of his career in the Tour. And if Quintana's improvement in spring means also an improvement in July, even his usual superpeak might not be enough for Froome.
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- Sep 2, 2014
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Põhja Konn said:
So thats cross winds and the heat that is good to him..next up he will win in Dubai
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TomLPC said:
When have we seen Froome's ability on the cobbles?
The toughest sector last year was a 3* sector, while Froome didn't make it to the cobbles in 2014.
Froome could be as good as Nibali or as bad as Contador for all we know
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PremierAndrew said:
Well hopefully they put another Paris-Roubais style stage in next year and we can find out.
SlickMongoose said:
Was that the section that Thomas and Froome dropped AC, and NQ where only Sagan could pull them back and Nibs could only hang on for dear life
With nearly all the French hopefuls Podium hopes dashed on that stage we may not see the cobbles again anytime soon.
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SlickMongoose said:
I suspect the top riders will be making their way to the Giro instead next year (100th edition)
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PremierAndrew said:
Weakish Tour is a prospect one or more of the top riders will go for I imagine, though few all round GC contenders go all out on Tour 3 years or more in a row. Obviously it would be awesome if they all did it. I'd expect Contador and Nibali to go close to 100% sure, for Quintana and Froome I think this Tour's result is gonna matter a lot
a message from the man himself to some posters here
https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/727070154564243457
https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/727070154564243457
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bravo Froome
for sure there were some on twitter and here grinding their teeth seeing him win and in the breakaway for 2 days
CTQ said:a message from the man himself to some posters here
https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/727070154564243457
bravo Froome
for sure there were some on twitter and here grinding their teeth seeing him win and in the breakaway for 2 days
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Its sadly that very few people like Froome from the general public and that goes far beyond this forum, I dont know if you saw last years Tour
CTQ said:a message from the man himself to some posters here
https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/727070154564243457
Its sadly that very few people like Froome from the general public and that goes far beyond this forum, I dont know if you saw last years Tour
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- Sep 2, 2014
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Thank god it's not a popularity contest then. All theses folk having so much hate for the dawg yet they're so obsessed with him
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Im with you, I dont get why he get so much hate from everyone and he certainly doesnt deserve it.
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Good that he can have a laugh about it, and if it annoys a few that hate him then that's even better!
CTQ said:a message from the man himself to some posters here
https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/727070154564243457
Good that he can have a laugh about it, and if it annoys a few that hate him then that's even better!
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People say my riding style is mundane? I'll prove them wrong by not riding according to my style for a couple of days!CTQ said:a message from the man himself to some posters here
https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/727070154564243457
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I'd never describe Froome as mundane. He's one of the more interesting riders out there, for sure.
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