Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

[Amazinmets87]

Chapeau! Great ride.

 

[dazaau]

Good on ya Froome. Real progress.

 

[ppanther92]

Chapeau

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Good on ya Froome. Real progress.

 

[SHAD0W93]

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.

That is true, he held on in the breakaway and to finish third. Great ride.

 

[Izzyeviel]

First time i've been gutted Froome didn't win. Great stuff today

 

[Amazinmets87]

Is he riding the Vuelta?

 

[Amazinmets87]

First time i've been gutted Froome didn't win. Great stuff today

Yea, never thought I'd be cheering to hard for a rider I intensely disliked for years.

This ride dispelled any notion that he no longer has the legs to win a GT stage. I hope he gets it.

 

[Pinot's goat]

Is he riding the Vuelta?

That was the plan announced earlier in the year.

 

[Oldermanish]

That is true, he held on in the breakaway and to finish third. Great ride.

Holding on in the breakaway alone was a big victory for him!

 

[SafeBet]

First top10 since the big crash... a podium on Alpe d'Huez. Chapeau champion.

 

[Cookster15]

Congrats to Froome. He was never my favourite rider but we have to hand it to him today. Plenty of mental application required to get himself back to this level.

It would be good to know what his Alpe time today was?

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

Edit: This, it turns out, was fake news.

I didn't time it, but I think his time might have been somewhere just under 42:00, which is, uh, only 30 seconds or so off what he did in 2018.

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[bigcog]

Into top 30 too, if he can hold that or improve even better, given where he was last year.

 

[Pinot's goat]

I didn't time it, but I think his time might have been somewhere just under 42:00, which is, uh, only 30 seconds or so off what he did in 2018.

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I think it was a little less than 44:00.

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

I think it was a little less than 44:00.

Did he really lose 5 minutes to the leaders? Finished about 1:40 ahead of them, thought he started at about 4 ahead on the Alpe but must be off there.

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

After further research, it appears it was indeed a time of just under 44. Still a great day for him.

 

[memyselfandI]

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.

This was probably as close as it gets. As we saw, it was indeed difficult for many from get go except Froome. And he dropped groups with Piddock real fast, well as a passenger mostly, and in many cases he was on the drops (at least when riding that measly tempo of his). And yes he managed to make a time cut.

Truly magnificent Gran Fondo athlete.

 

[ppanther92]

Edit: This, it turns out, was fake news.

I didn't time it, but I think his time might have been somewhere just under 42:00, which is, uh, only 30 seconds or so off what he did in 2018.

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Didn't they start the climb with a little bit over6 minutes? The best did 39:10, so Pidcock did ~41:50 and Froome ~44:00?

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

Didn't they start the climb with a little bit over6 minutes? The best did 39:10, so Pidcock did ~41:50 and Froome ~44:00?

You are correct; I was not.

 

[Mosul]

A quick search through PCS shows that Froome might be the oldest tour winner to podium a tour stage since 39-year-old Gino Bartali had a second-place finish in 1953.

Even Armstrong in 2009 didn't podium a stage apart from the TTT.

 

[dutchdescent]

A quick search through PCS shows that Froome might be the oldest tour winner to podium a tour stage since 39-year-old Gino Bartali had a second-place finish in 1953.

Even Armstrong in 2009 didn't podium a stage apart from the TTT.

But are there stage WINNERS that are same or older age? Makes a podium spot moot

 

[CyclistAbi]

Well hello i am not dead just yet after all.

Chapeau!

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Bet this was a good kick in the b0110x for his haters on here. Well done Dawg, onwards and upwards. Just finish the race dude.

 

[jmdirt]

But are there stage WINNERS that are same or older age? Makes a podium spot moot

The winner is the top of the podium...