You do know he's often been referred to as one who went overnight from donkey into racehorse?It's kinda sad how people like to kick badly bruised and battered racehorse. Claiming they have their reasons. Reasons?
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You do know he's often been referred to as one who went overnight from donkey into racehorse?It's kinda sad how people like to kick badly bruised and battered racehorse. Claiming they have their reasons. Reasons?
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The sake of Humanity is totally separate from the unreality of Pro Cycling, by the way.
You do know he's often been referred to as one who went overnight from donkey into racehorse?
Well, he was easily, by a good margin, the most hated rider online (and I'd assume IRL among cycling fans) for years and years without a doubt.
I hope Froome does Giro, Tour and Vuelta this year so you guys can all keep getting angry when he gets dropped.
off topic and unpopular opinion: I met Lance a few times and he was always very nice and took his time to sign things etc...maybe i was just lucky though
Guess there's a bit of a difference between still being mildly competitive and overpaid as hell and just pure pack fodder.The iron extortionist!
I'm kinda impressed by the fact that managed to convince the team to sign him for 4.5M per year before he actually showed anything after the injury. I doubt a super competitive guy like him is too happy about the situation, but maybe he found his peace and is just trying to mild a few extra millions for his family.
My dislike for Froome is strong, but I would agree that he's not likely too happy about it, it's got to be really frustrating. I mean why bother going through the rigor, pain, and discomfort of professional cycling, as a huge former champion, if you're not going to get results. The sponsors can't be happy, he has to be feeling it on some level, and I can't imagine an athlete who used to compete at that level and win easily would be happy about getting shelled by nobodies every time the road points uphill. I would be incredibly frustrated.The iron extortionist!
I'm kinda impressed by the fact that managed to convince the team to sign him for 4.5M per year before he actually showed anything after the injury. I doubt a super competitive guy like him is too happy about the situation, but maybe he found his peace and is just trying to mild a few extra millions for his family.
Lance can be incredibly charming and he's got a lot of charisma...when he wants to. The problem IMO with Lance is that it's always all about him, and what he feels like doing.off topic and unpopular opinion: I met Lance a few times and he was always very nice and took his time to sign things etc...maybe i was just lucky though
For the last two days Chris Froome has been very active early on trying to get into the break of the day.
When's the last time he's tried to do that?
No wonder he failed both times.
Not sure, he won a stage of Romandie from a break in 2016, but I think that was when he’d suffered a mechanical and lost loads of time earlier in the race.
Remember that stage, it was peeing it down if I am correct and he rode away on a climb. Bit different these days ...Not sure, he won a stage of Romandie from a break in 2016, but I think that was when he’d suffered a mechanical and lost loads of time earlier in the race.
I think apart from being one of the greatest comebacks in sport if he won a GT, it would be absolutely hilarious to see all the bile pouring out of various people. Of course i have more chance of going to mars ...Off the bike, Froome does seem like a nice guy.
You gotta have thick skin to be a cycling fan on most boards, especially this one. Evans fans had it really bad at one point. For all the Contador fans here in his later career, I was around cycling boards during “the comeback” in 2009 and then years of clembuterol steak references.
There’s also the fact that cycling has historically been dominated by a handful of nations through different eras: France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Holland... Most of us who were around for the first foreign explosion in the 1980s were able to understand it. LeMond was a true physical freak of nature, and Roche was a 1 year wonder who always showed potential to do something special. You could wrap your head around the successful Columbians because a) cycling was hugely popular in their country and b) it made sense that Columbia would produce great pure climbers. Even in the 1990s, the results now were obviously skewed because of clinical issues but at the time, it made sense if you weren’t looking at the speeds because you had Spanish, Italians, and French riders dominating.
All of a sudden, you had this behemoth from a country who had forgotten about LeMond and Hampsten completely dominate the sport for the better part of a decade. After Armstrong, all of a sudden you see what seems like a carbon copy pop up and dominate the sport again in the same manner of suffocating the sport. There’s going to be resentment when they produce 3 different TDF winners in an eight year span, and win all but 1 of the Tdfs.
Those riders are going to have their haters. When Contador was dominating the sport, it was vicious. His fan base didn’t overtake the rest until he was the seen as the only rider capable of beating Sky.
Froome became the face of Sky after toiling in obscurity. It upset the apple cart. Today, I think Pogacar has it much easier despite coming from a cycling afterthought of a country because he rides like Contador and has been winning since he was a junior. Otherwise the rise of Slovenia would be causing all sorts of alarms dealt with in another sub forum (where I’m sure it already is but it’s not enough to be leaking over).
Watching Froome now you feel for the guy. You admire the determination to get back, but you look at Valverde, who was not far off when he returned from his injury. Froome’s injuries were worse, and he looks like a shell of what he was. You feel for the guy. You want him to succeed and show flashes of what he once was, but it would undoubtedly raise the ire again of those who aren’t fans. We’re he to win a GT, it would be brutal.
Froome trounced Contador the most popular figure on this forum by a wide margin year after year after year that's the entire origin of the Froome=bad narrative.
That's the single most pathetic take I can think of.Froome trounced Contador the most popular figure on this forum by a wide margin year after year after year that's the entire origin of the Froome=bad narrative.
That's the single most pathetic take I can think of.
Contador made racing exciting. Trounced or not. Froome won te Tour and Vuelta in 2017 and not a single moment of that was exciting to watch.How can you like contador after tour 2010 ?
That's a fact that froome trounced contador, accept the truth.
He was looking for "progression" this week, and I can't see how 15 mins. down is progression at this point in the season.After flashing in the breakaway, Froome finished 14 mins and 32 secs behind the stage winner.