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Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

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Is Froome over the hill?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 39 34.5%
  • No, the GC finished 40 minutes ago but Froomie is still climbing it

    Votes: 62 54.9%
  • No he is totally winning the Vuelta

    Votes: 25 22.1%

  • Total voters
    113
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Your cant compare with Romandie becouse he was positioning his leaders... Today I didnt see anybody at the end positioning him, but he didnt work, so is not the same situation. But yes, as is normal with his objetives closer than a month ago, he is stronger.

He is similar than in Slovakia, but here the field is stronger, so of course he is stronger than ever after his crash, and maybe he is one of the strongers of the race. We wiill see.
Not sure if that's true. Definitely his best performances since he joined Israel, but he had some pretty decent days during his last months with Ineos as domestique.
He lost lot of time finaly at Angliru, his best day with Ineos that year. He did a good day, helping at the Cordal and the begining of Angliru, but it was just one day.
 
In the Route d'Occitanie and in the Tour de l'Ain he arguably had better days as domestique that year.
I didnt see that races to see if he was really working. It is true that he was worse next year, maybe but some consecuence of the crash..it looks like should be the opossite, more time after thae crash, better, except by the age..but you can have some problem that if you dont get it better, you are going to get worse with the time....He had closer his best days as well..and that winter after 2020 he was focused on recovery, no tryning..But he started to improve last year at Dauphine with that 39th place in a mountain stage, and later he crashed at le Tour, so impossible to know his level there...

It was an spring with hard training champs in altitude and no improving....he was even worse than last year.. and I understud what people wrote here, but you can considered as Bolder put before than Chris and me could be right.
 
In the Route d'Occitanie and in the Tour de l'Ain he arguably had better days as domestique that year.
I will watch this race, but yes, there is not big difference this day with the level he showed past Alpes Maritimes, but I think now he is better.

 
Tomorrow will be an even bigger test for Chris Froome's three-year comeback.
A 170km stage that finishes with a Cat 2 climb of 6.2km at 5.6%.
Of course Froome can climb it, but does he have the power to stay with the inevitable high pace dash to the finishing line?
I wish Chris well, but I believe he will lose time to the big names tomorrow.
 
Tomorrow will be an even bigger test for Chris Froome's three-year comeback.
A 170km stage that finishes with a Cat 2 climb of 6.2km at 5.6%.
Of course Froome can climb it, but does he have the power to stay with the inevitable high pace dash to the finishing line?
I wish Chris well, but I believe he will lose time to the big names tomorrow.
He is not explosive. Short stage and short final climb. Perfect for Roglic or even VanAert. Better for his team mate Simon clarke...It will be difficult he doesnt lose time, but I hope just a little.
 
I wish Chris well, but I believe he will lose time to the big names tomorrow.
He certainly will. But for the first time it does not seem like managing the time loss is out of reach. If he comes in reasonably well, thats probably enough to make the TdF team for ISN. I for myself so far still am cautious about the 11th place last week. Very much possible that in a more stacked field like here he still lands somewhere around place 50. But the comeback certainly took some positive momentum for the first time now.
 
I just watched that stage in Occitania in 2020.
He pulled more than 3 minutes, after Castroviejo, till aboput 5 km to the line. Good pulll that put the peloton from about 30 riders to 13....I think he is now at that level..or at least when he was 11th the other day. Now we dont know..I hope a little bit better.

Of course he didnt show at Israel that level so far...but maybe it has some explanation in relation with his remaining problems of his crash during 2021, and that winter focused on the gym,a nd he was too optimistic about the time of recovery of those problems and to get shape again after too much time of different trying than before.

It is easy to say he was lying or if he improve more it has just only clinic explanation, as I have read here, but maybe it has another explanation.
 
He is not explosive. Short stage and short final climb. Perfect for Roglic or even VanAert. Better for his team mate Simon clarke...It will be difficult he doesnt lose time, but I hope just a little.
He used to be quite explosive uphill actually. A number of big attacks come to mind. That was one of his cards to surge away from the likes of Quintana. Now perhaps not so much anymore. If he regains his top end he may still surprise.
 
He certainly will. But for the first time it does not seem like managing the time loss is out of reach. If he comes in reasonably well, thats probably enough to make the TdF team for ISN. I for myself so far still am cautious about the 11th place last week. Very much possible that in a more stacked field like here he still lands somewhere around place 50. But the comeback certainly took some positive momentum for the first time now.
Let’s see tomorrow how he fares, but he’s not getting dropped yet and positioning well in the front when the race goes uphill. Very interesting to watch where he will end on GC this race.
 
Yeah, the Froome thread has become really popular again. It‘s a new Froome hype…

I somehow could imagine Froome will win his magic fifth TdF soon, and he will possibly be even stronger than he was when he won Tours #1 till #4… :)

It would be epic if Froomey could perform high-RPM attacks again. He would have to be stronger cause the competition is stronger: these Slovenian guys are decent in the mountains and even can TT a bit.
 
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He used to be quite explosive uphill actually. A number of big attacks come to mind. That was one of his cards to surge away from the likes of Quintana. Now perhaps not so much anymore. If he regains his top end he may still surprise.
He was the best, but he is not an explosive rider, but and endurance rider, Very similar in that to Landa, contador has an explisve attack...for that reason Froome needed the team to make the difference. Os course if you want to go alone you have to attack,a nd he did some acelerations, but at the end of a mountain stage. Hope to see him well tomorrow...nortmal thing would be him losing ten seconds with Roglic, but maybe he wont lose anything.