Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

[silvergrenade]

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Lance armstrong is in reach. Congrats for his fourth tour

Yes, an 18 second gap is clearly impossible to bridge.

2 minutes if you count with the time trial. He is the best climber, has the best team, so who will beat him?

Crashes, Sickness, Aru 3rd Week Form, Another Formigal?
You never know..

 

[DanielSong39]

Re: Re:

Lance armstrong is in reach. Congrats for his fourth tour

Yes, an 18 second gap is clearly impossible to bridge.

2 minutes if you count with the time trial. He is the best climber, has the best team, so who will beat him?

Aru is good enough to lose 30 seconds or less on a good day. I wouldn't count on 2 minutes.

With that said Froome is the favorite and almost certainly will win.

 

[staubsauger]

Froome should be disqualified from the Tour tonight!

https://twitter.com/lionelbirnie/status/884058385246801923

 

[deValtos]

Re:

Froome should be disqualified from the Tour tonight!

https://twitter.com/lionelbirnie/status/884058385246801923

For what exactly?

 

[hazaran]

Re:

Froome should be disqualified from the Tour tonight!

https://twitter.com/lionelbirnie/status/884058385246801923

Seems like you don't know the first rule of racing.. you are responsible for your own front wheel. If you follow someone closely they have no obligation to look back and check where you are.

 

[bigcog]

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Froome should be disqualified from the Tour tonight!

https://twitter.com/lionelbirnie/status/884058385246801923

For what exactly?

Not being Contador I would imagine.

 

[hrotha]

I'm sure it was all just a big coincidence that that happened between Froome and Aru. 100% innocent, yessir.

 

[Hayabusa]

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That wasn't really the discussion we have had in the last 3 pages or so pages though

To be fair most of the discussion the last 3 pages were two people arguing with eachother that the other was a troll

My point is that Contador should be discussed in the Contador thread, he is of no concern to Froome.

Then should Contador attack at any point this weekend we can anticipate Froome/Sky simply letting him go on his merry way as they don't see him as a threat at all.

Well I said Alberto was irrelevant and well he was. Gutted for Porte as he was with Froome and so proved himself worthy of discussion but hopefully see him back at the Vuelta.

3 man battle now. Aru vs Bardet vs Froome.

 

[DanielSong39]

For better or for worse what Froome did to Aru is part of the sport and one of the benefits of being a 3-time Tour winner with the yellow jersey.

It is what it is; on to stage 10.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

He doesn't look nearly as strong as before, yet his position at this moment looks excellent. Even if he can't drop em, they cannot drop him either. Only Bardet seems to be able to damage downhill.
But then what, there's still a 20km ITT.

And Sky has proven again to be the strongest team..

 

[portugal11]

He should receive a 30 seconds penalty

 

[46&twoWheels]

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Froome should be disqualified from the Tour tonight!

https://twitter.com/lionelbirnie/status/884058385246801923

 

[deValtos]

Unclips and loses his balance -> slightly nudges Aru at 12kpmh -> People demand DQ

Right.

 

[dacooley]

the form is clearly on the rise looking back at pdbf. a big attack attempt on peyragudes incoming.

 

[hrotha]

"Unclips and loses his balance". Yeah right. It wouldn't be the first time Froome slyly plays innocent to betray fair play all over the place, like last year when he conveniently neutralized the race by taking a pee break at the worst possible time.

He shouldn't be DQ'ed because he didn't actually endanger Aru at all (climbing is not sprinting, y'all), but he deserves a fine and to be called out.

 

[deValtos]

Just incase people thought any malice was involved take a look at the front on shot: https://twitter.com/LVCKV/status/884079372298334208

Froome raises his hand afterwards as a brief apology.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Unclips and loses his balance -> slightly nudges Aru at 12kpmh -> People demand DQ

Right.

Well, it's the july folk, they come here once a year and then totally lose their minds everytime.

So happy when it's september again and they are gone and we can enjoy the Vuelta

 

[deValtos]

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"Unclips and loses his balance". Yeah right.

Why not? Everyone wants to just hate the guy as much as possible and so it must be intended!

 

[spalco]

I wouldn't mind the organisers to say something about this thing, if they want to throw the book at him a time penalty for all I care (though excessive imo), but DQ is absurd, complete fantasy.

 

[hrotha]

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"Unclips and loses his balance". Yeah right.

Why not? Everyone wants to just hate the guy as much as possible and so it must be intended!

I don't hate the guy, but it's just too damn convenient in my opinion.

 

[silvergrenade]

Froome was the strongest today..
Definitely dropped both Bardet and Aru today...
Had it been an uphill finish, it would've been between Porte and Froome..

 

[spalco]

I do think there was a bit of road rage here btw, and if it was intentional he's got to cut this out in the future. Not for his image, but for his own sake, because it could really get him in trouble. More tranquilo, Froome.

 

[deValtos]

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I do think there was a bit of road rage here btw, and if it was intentional he's got to cut this out in the future. Not for his image, but for his own sake, because it could really get him in trouble. More tranquilo, Froome.

Watch the front on clip, he apologises twice.

 

[hrotha]

That doesn't mean his apologies were sincere. I think Aru claimed he didn't see Froome when he attacked and we all know that's BS.

 

[LaFlorecita]

No sanction?