Yeah, I also noticed that Froome nowadays does exceptionally well in this „Mercan‘Tour“ race in June… This race seems to suit him very well.That's not true. See the result below, from late May. While not earth-shatteringly good, it's certainly nowhere near as bad as the level he displayed in the Czech Tour, which was just a disgrace for any Worldtour pro, let alone a four time TDF winner.
1 CARAPAZ Richard EF Education-EasyPost 125 75 4:47:59 2 GALL Felix AG2R Citroën Team 85 55 0:12 3 VAN EETVELT Lennert Lotto Dstny 70 40 0:38 4 MARTINEZ Lenny Groupama - FDJ 60 32 ,, 5 RODRÍGUEZ Cristián Team Arkéa Samsic 50 28 ,, 6 BERTHET Clément AG2R Citroën Team 40 24 0:51 7 MARTIN Guillaume Cofidis 35 20 1:53 8 MEINTJES Louis Intermarché - Circus - Wanty 30 18 ,, 9 ZEITS Andrey Astana Qazaqstan Team 25 16 1:55 10 MONIQUET Sylvain Lotto Dstny 20 14 2:24 11 PARRA José Félix Equipo Kern Pharma 15 12 ,, 12 HERMANS Ben Israel - Premier Tech 10 10 2:51 13 JOALLAND Yaël CIC U Nantes Atlantique 5 8 3:07 14 FROOME Chris Israel - Premier Tech 5 7 3:36 15 ZIMMERMANN Georg Intermarché - Circus - Wanty 5 6 4:20
(Maybe this will be the race where he‘ll take his first victory, since 2018…)