Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

[King Boonen]

Nessie is real.

 

[rick james]

I've seen it

 

[TomLPC]

Dawg started his annual green Jersey charge today, what a character

 

[Jspear]

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Dawg started his annual green Jersey charge today, what a character

When he can no longer climb well, he will become a sprinter/strongman and dethrone Sagan.

 

[silvergrenade]

Yup.
Looks like he had a very strong last 500m. He gained a lot of places to finish 9th.
Great ride. Looks to have recovered okay.

 

[rick james]

What do we make of his form right now? should we have expected better today?

 

[deValtos]

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What do we make of his form right now? should we have expected better today?

Started the climb in a bad position and finished inside the top 10, can't ask for more really.

In all honesty it's hard to judge GC contenders on a 1.6km 6% climb. Froome, Quintana, Porte & Martin all looked good I'd say.

Stage 5 is the real test and since it's a Froome kind of stage he really needs to gap riders like Quintana who can come back in later mountain stages.

 

[pink_jersey]

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What do we make of his form right now? should we have expected better today?

I think yes. He sat on Kwiatkowski wheel the entire time but couldn't really accelerate. Only in the last 500m when Kwiatkowski was spent he moved on. Thomas looked stronger imo.
Also, good to see Landa still there.

 

[rick james]

I've read Thomas saying they didn't start the climb in the best position yet still ended up top 10, i'm expecting Froome to be in monster shape in week 3...if he gets there that is

 

[deValtos]

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I've read Thomas saying they didn't start the climb in the best position yet still ended up top 10, i'm expecting Froome to be in monster shape in week 3...if he gets there that is

I mean you can just watch Froome rounding the final corner in 30th position and overtaking 20 guys to reach the top 10. It was just a bad position tbh.

 

[jmdirt]

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What do we make of his form right now? should we have expected better today?

No, he isn't going to get PS, MM, or GVA on a climb like that. Martin just showed how spring battle skills and good form can keep you at the front on a stage like that. Plus what DeValtos just typed.

 

[Galic Ho]

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Well, they were hammering way too hard it seemed to be that far from the finish. No one was going to attack and get away, so why ride that hard? That was the cause of the crash. But the entire peloton continued to put on full gas after that, causing Froome and Sky to chase like mad to catch back up, which is more taxing than

It's always hard to tell how much a crash affects a rider. There's no possible way Froome or the team are going to give us a hint, one way or the other.

This.

But the road always tells the story; Geraint Thomas at the Giro showed that. Landa lost far more time on the stage, over 5x more time than Thomas, but he finished the Giro!

Contador at the tour last year is an indicator.

Todays winners are the GC boys who kept themselves upright unscathed. They won.

Nope, winners are anyone in vortex skinsuits

You've been Rick rolled Rick James...

That post was made after stage 2.

And Sky boys hit the deck on that stage.

What? Did you miss the 'caption this' image Froome shared on social media?

As for the vortex suits. It's simple game theory.

Release info on them...have someone randomly bring them to the publics attention...everyone focuses on the suit and more 'marginal gains.'

It takes the focus off the real elephant in the room/Sky bus. What really increases time? More power.

Vortex suits or more power? It's a no brainer...more power every day of the week. It has more applications.

Sky throw a curve ball, it somehow miraculously only comes out at the Tour, where Sky miraculously have form for the first time as a team all season...hey it's the shirts!!

Nope. It was the boys turning the cranks that did it.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Job done for Froome today, Aru looks strong but Froome will need to lose a lot of time to him before the TT and his gap was exaggerated by them messing about in the final K.

I still don't think there was much between Froome and Porte, but you'd expect Froome to get stronger after his first half of the season.

 

[JRanton]

Pretty good performance if his form is still on the way up.

 

[Jspear]

Does the yellow jersey stay with team sky for the whole race?

 

[miguelindurain111]

He didn't even breathe lol. Seriously speaking, it looked like he didn't put himself too deep in the red. There's a chance he will win this bike race

 

[lenric]

Don't think there's a difference between Porte and Froome. Froome is more explosive, so I wasn't surprised to see distancing Porte in the last 100/200 mts.

 

[SeriousSam]

Weaker than he's been during his previous wins, but no one is clearly stronger and his weakness compared to his old strength is consistent with the "targeting the double" narrative.

Thanks to that great time trial, he's in control. There's another TT to come in which Aru is going to lose another chunk of time, and Porte is probably going to ride for 2nd given that he was unable to finish in front of Froome today

 

[jilbiker]

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Weaker than he's been during his previous wins, but no one is clearly stronger and his weakness compared to his old strength is consistent with the "targeting the double" narrative.

Thanks to that great time trial, he's in control. There's another TT to come in which Aru is going to lose another chunk of time, and Porte is probably going to ride for 2nd given that he was unable to finish in front of Froome today

I agree, its not the Frrome of before. My take is that its age. Some people don't age too good. He seems to have lost some zip

 

[Finn84]

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Does the yellow jersey stay with team sky for the whole race?

I could see non-GC contender taking jersey on stage 8 or 9 before it will return to contender in Peyragudes.

 

[TheYouyou7]

Honnestly, he performed under par. Gonna be tricky 2 weeks for him

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Funny that for a guy who has just gone into yellow, he has about a dozen comments after the race and for a guy whose best form was 10 years ago he has about a dozen pages. Mainly of excuses and BS.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Honnestly, he performed under par. Gonna be tricky 2 weeks for him

That could be true, but he's getting stronger and he's come on a lot from the Dauphine. His plan of being in great form for week 3 and then carrying that over to the Vuelta looks good so far, but the likes of Aru and Porte, amongst others, will make it tough for him.

 

[geter]

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Funny that for a guy who has just gone into yellow, he has about a dozen comments after the race and for a guy whose best form was 10 years ago he has about a dozen pages. Mainly of excuses and BS.

Should tell you something about the signifcent of Contador aswell as irrelevant Froome becomes next time him.


That beeing said Froome is and should be the best of the riders these days and chappou to him for the yellow, not the impressive seeing it was the first mountain top finish which has become his trademark afterall. Lets see if its a different approach in terms of preperation that he excales and become better then it will become nasy or he fatigue pretty big like he used to atleast!

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Funny that for a guy who has just gone into yellow, he has about a dozen comments after the race and for a guy whose best form was 10 years ago he has about a dozen pages. Mainly of excuses and BS.

That's because the one who's best form was "10 years ago" is the people's champion.