Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

[Pinot's goat]

Chris has no chance of ever amounting to anything again and never should have. Tomorrow he looses 10 minutes.

If he loses only 10 min tomorrow then he will be close to the top 10 on the stage.

 

[Amazinmets87]

Does Froome have the explosiveness to make it into the break? In the event he does will they let him in?

 

[tonymikejoe]

Peloton: You have been warned.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546949971001323520

View: https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/1546949971001323520

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Today:

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Froome Chris

Israel-Premier Tech

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+ 27:16​

- stage hunting from now on

 

[FroomeWagon]

Today:

44

Froome Chris

Israel-Premier Tech

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+ 27:16​

- stage hunting from now on

As opposed to?

 

[glassmoon]

Today:

44

Froome Chris

Israel-Premier Tech

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+ 27:16​

- stage hunting from now on

not good enough even for that...

 

[shalgo]

A realistic goal for Froome is to try to beat Beloki's best post-crash GT GC: 40th from the 2005 Vuelta. Even Andy's post-injury 20th place at the 2013 Tour looks out of reach.

 

[Extinction]

Froome at over 27 minutes back is not credible even with the crash. He is a Granfondo champion at best.

 

[glassmoon]

None of the riders around his place actually trying for GC - they all have duties and partial jobs/targets through the Tour so his place as a rider with zero duties for the team is irrelevant. His position in the GC is around domestics and support riders only that he does not have such obligations. He's just dead weight which personally I wouldn't mind (if his team is willing to pay for that) if it was not for his constant delusional BS he's putting out (15w missing from top level, on the good track, promising test results, etc...) Sigh...

 

[FroomeWagon]

Froome at over 27 minutes back is not credible even with the crash. He is a Granfondo champion at best.

He is actually 55:37 down now, but 41st overall in GC if you are a "glass half-full" type of guy.

 

[red_flanders]

Today:

44

Froome Chris

Israel-Premier Tech

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+ 27:16​

- stage hunting from now on

He'll have to...I don't know...say...hunt for a stage, before we call him that, right? Not saying it's impossible but he's not been able to get into a break yet.

 

[SHAD0W93]

He'll have to...I don't know...say...hunt for a stage, before we call him that, right? Not saying it's impossible but he's not been able to get into a break yet.

Waiting for the final stage to get in the breakaway and top 10 to stop the German streak.

 

[IndianCyclist]

5 million of this year also down the drain for Israel-Premier Tech

 

[Tonton]

"Chris Froome is the New Betancur" as it relates to where this thread is going. Just sayin'.

 

[Rackham]

I think today is going to be very difficult for Froome. The action will start on Galibier & he's likely to get thrown into dropped groups real fast, at which point he becomes a passenger among riders who're just aiming to make the time cut.

The problem he has is one which has been spoken of loads of times, i.e. as soon as the tempo increases, he drops.

 

[PhiLiz]

We need more TV images of the Dawg struggling to crack top40... Not nearly enough.

 

[gunara]

Arise!!

 

[Rackham]

His comment before the stage...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1547527106598473729

He warned the peloton, yet they did not listen. Dawg is on a mission.

 

[SHAD0W93]

His comment before the stage...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1547527106598473729

He warned the peloton, yet they did not listen. Dawg is on a mission.

I’m not going to lie, the way yesterday went I was half expecting Froome to pass Pogacar up.

 

[dutchdescent]

I think today is going to be very difficult for Froome. The action will start on Galibier & he's likely to get thrown into dropped groups real fast, at which point he becomes a passenger among riders who're just aiming to make the time cut.

The problem he has is one which has been spoken of loads of times, i.e. as soon as the tempo increases, he drops.

So far none of this is happening

 

[Krzysztof_O]

So Chris is 5 min up. At the finish in Alpe it will be 10 min up but there are still a lot of stages to beat Vigne in the GC.

 

[Rackham]

So far none of this is happening

Because he jumped ahead at the top of the Galibier (when not much was happening in the peloton aka no real action) & he worked with Tom Pidcock (& his amazing descending skills) to join the breakaway. But people shouldn't kid themselves, i.e. when Froome is in the peloton, he gets dropped when they accelerate.

I don't know why a plucky breakaway would suddenly change all that. Good spectacle though, i.e. a totally boring stage which Froome has given some interest. So he gets 'cool factor' points for that.

Bike style is still an eyesore though.

 

[dutchdescent]

Because he jumped ahead at the top of the Galibier (when not much was happening in the peloton aka no real action) & he worked with Tom Pidcock (& his amazing descending skills) to join the breakaway. But people shouldn't kid themselves, i.e. when Froome is in the peloton, he gets dropped when they accelerate.

I don't know why a plucky breakaway would suddenly change all that. Good spectacle though, i.e. a totally boring stage which Froome has given some interest. So he gets 'cool factor' points for that.

Bike style is still an eyesore though.

Completely off the prediction you made that he would be thrown out the back today.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Completely off the prediction you made that he would be thrown out the back today.

Because the action didn’t go like they thought it would.

 

[dutchdescent]

Because the action didn’t go like they thought it would.

Isn’t that always the case?
regardless today proves a lot of people wrong. No longer a GC contender. But still up there fighting it out with very good climbers.