Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

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Difficult to know how much he give on the ITT. Not full gas, but of course he didn't relax.. Similar time to his team mates Dan Martin and Woods. Maybe he can do a top 20 in the last ITT if he give everything as I expect.
 
Of course prime froome can fight with pogi and roglic, a guy who has a ftp of 6.4 w/kg can fight with everybody. And froome in his prime would be more faster today than 7 seven or 8 years ago, because the nutrition and training evolved.
The question is, can froome back to his best? Very difficult.
We dont know if Pogacar can improve his level, becouse he is really young, or not...The level he showed last year and this one so far is really high, but Froome best level as well....I think Froome could back close to his best level..but if that happen he will need luck to beat Pogacar. Froome would be happy to have option of podium in one of the GTs...But if Pereiro won a Tour you never Knows..you need luck and circunstances...The level Nibali had when he won the Tour I think is still possible for him....today he is far of that, but I think he will show a decent level at the end of the Tour and better at the Vuelta
 
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We dont know if Pogacar can improve his level, becouse he is really young, or not...The level he showed last year and this one so far is really high, but Froome best level as well....I think Froome could back close to his best level..but if that happen he will need luck to beat Pogacar. Froome would be happy to have option of podium in one of the GTs...But if Pereiro won a Tour you never Knows..you need luck and circunstances...The level Nibali had when he won the Tour I think is still possible for him....today he is far of that, but I think he will show a decent level at the end of the Tour and better at the Vuelta

I think you should wake up.
 
We dont know if Pogacar can improve his level, becouse he is really young, or not...The level he showed last year and this one so far is really high, but Froome best level as well....I think Froome could back close to his best level..but if that happen he will need luck to beat Pogacar. Froome would be happy to have option of podium in one of the GTs...But if Pereiro won a Tour you never Knows..you need luck and circunstances...The level Nibali had when he won the Tour I think is still possible for him....today he is far of that, but I think he will show a decent level at the end of the Tour and better at the Vuelta
Pereiro needed a lot to go his way and there hasn't been a Tour like that since. I don't see how Froome at his age can get anywhere back close to his best. Same goes for Nibali. GC history has shown that age is a major factor in winning grand tours. After the age of 33 or so the chances really drop off. Evans managed a late one then dropped pretty quickly same with Sastre. Contador and Quintana were never as good in their 30s. I expect Nibali to go backwards quickly when the harder stages are reached and with Froome its all about next season at this point.
 
Another clash with his old foe Quintana, but in the end they couldn't be separated. Still, it's a long way to Paris and the big mountains are yet to come.
And also nibali, he's gonna join froome and quintana. And maybe contador can let is job on eurosport for some days and join them in the gruppeto. The big four back together fighting for the victory in the grupetto ahah.
 
We dont know if Pogacar can improve his level, becouse he is really young, or not...The level he showed last year and this one so far is really high, but Froome best level as well....I think Froome could back close to his best level..but if that happen he will need luck to beat Pogacar. Froome would be happy to have option of podium in one of the GTs...But if Pereiro won a Tour you never Knows..you need luck and circunstances...The level Nibali had when he won the Tour I think is still possible for him....today he is far of that, but I think he will show a decent level at the end of the Tour and better at the Vuelta
How can he come back near his best level? He is old, injured, has had 2 lost years, not sure what he is getting from this tour but its probably not improvements....
Oh, and now he is on a weak team, at least compared to sky
actually compared to sky its a *** team