Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

[dastott]

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Legendary performance!

Actually I have less respect for him after today, and anything else I have to say only belongs in the clinic section of the boards.

Oh dear, another one for the block list...

 

[Ripper]

Re: Re:

Legendary performance!

Landisarian performance!

 

[Põhja Konn]

Edited by Mods: the link was posted in the correct place (the clinic) it should not be in this section of the forum.

 

[Nirvana]

After yesterday he climbed sharply to the top of my favourite riders list, he has done something that i was dreaming for more than twenty years, since Chiappucci.
Nibali who? Contador who? That's the way to do long range attacks!

I hope also that this performance will teach a lesson to Prudhomme and his maniacal and compulsive attitude towards juniors or even 15 years old lenght stage in search of a show.

 

[Taxus4a]

Froome is not going to pay anything today, except if it is raining. He is day by day stronger. The other people payed the same or more the effort. In a stage with Finestre and 4500 m, to put 5 minutes on another is just to be a iittle bit stronger, it is just maybe 2 % stronger.

 

[Poursuivant]

He has a great palmares with some very special wins, but Yesterday was Froome’s masterpiece.

 

[Taxus4a]

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After yesterday he climbed sharply to the top of my favourite riders list, he has done something that i was dreaming for more than twenty years, since Chiappucci.
Nibali who? Contador who? That's the way to do long range attacks!

I hope also that this performance will teach a lesson to Prudhomme and his maniacal and compulsive attitude towards juniors or even 15 years old lenght stage in search of a show.

Since Chiapucci, but it was another era. So for me this has more merit.
Anyway it is not so differente to Andy in Galibier. He had some help from team mates, but more people behind him, and headwind in the valley. Maybe another era as well, but anyway not the era of Chiapucci.

We have to go maybe till Hinault in Serranillos, but what Froome did yesterday is more than Coppi, un uomo solo al comando.

 

[Taxus4a]

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He has a great palmares with some very special wins, but Yesterday was Froome’s masterpiece.

He need just rivals as Domoulin who can put time to him on the ITT and a worse team, a team similar to this Giro, a good team to help but not a dominating team to see more stage like this, ot problems as mechanichal or crash... But a situation like this one, with Froome 4 minutes behind, with him the stronger rider and a profile of stage like this, with the only possibility of attack 80 Km from the finish, it is difficult to watch again. Something similar, maybe.
In le Tour he is more to counter attack Landa and Quintana, who are better than him on the mountains if everybody is at his best.

 

[MatParker117]

Legend, that simple.

 

[DBotero]

Amazing.Tour-Vuelta-Giro.
Surely the best GT win of his career.Chapeau!

 

[bigcog]

I don`t care anymore. Merge this with the clinic thread. He is a disgrace.

Cry me a river

 

[PremierAndrew]

The 7th man to win all 3 GTs. Chapeau

 

[deValtos]

Well done!

Enjoyed watching the race.

 

[MatParker117]

I don`t care anymore. Merge this with the clinic thread. He is a disgrace.

The levels of sodium are very high.

 

[Ataraxus]

Chapeau Chris Froome.
6 GT Wins, 10 podiums.
2 Olympic medals
And counting.....
Accomplisher of the small double with the big double in shot.
Clearly the best rider of the decade.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Congratulations, without a doubt the strongest GC rider since Hinault.

 

[Arked]

I'am not Froome fan boy or anything but I find collective outcry and butthurt in comments everywhere somehow amusing. I can only imagine what will happen if he somehow defend himself from Vuelta DQ.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Terrific victory. Congratulations!

 

[Screecher]

Now imagine Froome with yesterday's form getting paced by Bernal. See you in July.

 

[Ataraxus]

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Congratulations, without a doubt the strongest GC rider since Hinault.

We should come to converging definitions of the word "Strong" first but accomplishments-wise, Indurain with his 7 GT Wins, 9 podiums, Olympic gold, World championship, Multiple Worlds road race podiums stands higher IMHO.

 

[DFA123]

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I'am not Froome fan boy or anything but I find collective outcry and butthurt in comments everywhere somehow amusing. I can only imagine what will happen if he somehow defend himself from Vuelta DQ.

VMT, some of the hand wringing and blatant hypocrisy has just served to add to the entertainment Froome provided yesterday. I'm pretty neutral on him now, having been very against him when he was doing the US postal suffocating the Tour thing with Sky. But this version of Froome is more Pantani or Contador than Armstrong in his style and panache. This Giro has overtaken Ventoux and PSM as his main legacy imo.

I do feel a bit though for the 'fans' who are so invested in their hatred of Froome, or so ardent in their support of other riders, that they haven't been able to enjoy a stage like yesterday's and the subsequent finish to the race. Great racing always trumps my likes and dislikes of the personalities involved, whoever they are.

 

[Pantani Attacks]

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Congratulations, without a doubt the strongest GC rider since Hinault.

We should come to converging definitions of the word "Strong" first but accomplishments-wise, Indurain with his 7 GT Wins, 9 podiums, Olympic gold, World championship, Multiple Worlds road race podiums stands higher IMHO.

You must be joking, Indurain wouldn't be fit to be a domestique for Froome. Poels>Indurain, wise up please.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Congratulations, without a doubt the strongest GC rider since Hinault.

We should come to converging definitions of the word "Strong" first but accomplishments-wise, Indurain with his 7 GT Wins, 9 podiums, Olympic gold, World championship, Multiple Worlds road race podiums stands higher IMHO.

GC

 

[Arked]

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I'am not Froome fan boy or anything but I find collective outcry and butthurt in comments everywhere somehow amusing. I can only imagine what will happen if he somehow defend himself from Vuelta DQ.

VMT, some of the hand wringing and blatant hypocrisy has just served to add to the entertainment Froome provided yesterday. I'm pretty neutral on him now, having been very against him when he was doing the US postal suffocating the Tour thing with Sky. But this version of Froome is more Pantani or Contador than Armstrong in his style and panache. This Giro has overtaken Ventoux and PSM as his main legacy imo.

I do feel a bit though for the 'fans' who are so invested in their hatred of Froome, or so ardent in their support of other riders, that they haven't been able to enjoy a stage like yesterday's and the subsequent finish to the race. Great racing always trumps my likes and dislikes of the personalities involved, whoever they are.

Yeah. I think Froome did some really entertaining things before (2016 TdF downhill attack and crosswind action with Sagan on another stage comes to mind) . His racing is most of the times boring but that's how winning TdF back to back is done unfortunately. I think that If he'd be more often forced to be that desperate by his rivals we would see more of his entertaining version.

 

[Ataraxus]

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Congratulations, without a doubt the strongest GC rider since Hinault.

We should come to converging definitions of the word "Strong" first but accomplishments-wise, Indurain with his 7 GT Wins, 9 podiums, Olympic gold, World championship, Multiple Worlds road race podiums stands higher IMHO.

GC

Still 5 tours 2 Giros ( 2 doubles) is more than 4 Tours 1 Giro and 1 Vuelta.
Froome is ahead podium-wise but GT wins are heavier stones in the balance