Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

[Rackham]

Froome is just chilling out in Rwanda, saving the good stuff for the Tour in July - The Czech Tour, that is.

Froome will redefine the meaning 'slow' in Czecho - slo - vakia.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Froome is just chilling out in Rwanda, saving the good stuff for the Tour in July - The Czech Tour, that is.

That will only be because Adams decides to keep his best rider out of the TdF squad, like when Johan Cruyff didn't select Michael Laudrup for the 1994 Champions League final and Barcelona got trashed by Milan.

 

[Ricco']

ITT result:

57	ROUGIER-LAGANE Christopher	Mauritius				4:28	27.874
58	FROOME Chris	Israel - Premier Tech				,,	27.874

Christopher & Chris, 4 minutes & 28 seconds down on the winner (Pierre Latour) in a 13km ITT.

Those miles... were hard. Very hard.

Poor Chris was checking his whatsapp in a hurry before the TT and saw "No GC times will taken on today's time trial" and therefore just did what every rational human being would do and saved himself. It's just a shame he unknowingly mixed up Tour de Rwanda with Gran Camino.

 

[saunaking]

Poor Chris was checking his whatsapp in a hurry before the TT and saw "No GC times will taken on today's time trial" and therefore just did what every rational human being would do and saved himself. It's just a shame he unknowingly mixed up Tour de Rwanda with Gran Camino.

guys, why would he try today?
He is the ultimate professional, consummate teammate and is saving his energy to support them for the rest of the race. This is the 'experience' they brought him into the team for

 

[Taxus4a]

ITT result:

57	ROUGIER-LAGANE Christopher	Mauritius				4:28	27.874
58	FROOME Chris	Israel - Premier Tech				,,	27.874

Christopher & Chris, 4 minutes & 28 seconds down on the winner (Pierre Latour) in a 13km ITT.

Those miles... were hard. Very hard.

Similar time that his other 2 team mates who are not fighting for GC as well and has to work to win this race for the team. All they make second on the opening TTT, wich wanst too flat, so It is a normal result. I always has the hope he can perform well even saving energy, but he is not in that moment now. With the level he had on 2022 Tour the France he will be the best here, or at least fighting with the best, becouse Restrepo and Lecerf were at a similar level to the best of the world at this opening season. Of course the race has not a big level in general , but of course the best riders here are top level in the world at this moment of the year. Hope to see hin at a good level this end of the course, helping the team or fighteen a stage, despite are short stages and no long climbs

 

[SHAD0W93]

Similar time that his other 2 team mates who are not fighting for GC as well and has to work to win this race for the team. All they make second on the opening TTT, wich wanst too flat, so It is a normal result. I always has the hope he can perform well even saving energy, but he is not in that moment now. With the level he had on 2022 Tour the France he will be the best here, or at least fighting with the best, becouse Restrepo and Lecerf were at a similar level to the best of the world at this opening season. Of course the race has not a big level in general , but of course the best riders here are top level in the world at this moment of the year. Hope to see hin at a good level this end of the course, helping the team or fighteen a stage, despite are short stages and no long climbs

I don’t know if you remember or not but Froome finished last in the TTT.

 

[ManicJack]

Of course the race has not a big level in general , but of course the best riders here are top level in the world at this moment of the year.

WTF? 🥱

 

[Peyroteo94]

Taxus is probably the biggest troll cyclingnews has ever seen but somehow he continues to write these crappy posts day after day.

 

[ManicJack]

Taxus is probably the biggest troll cyclingnews has ever seen but somehow he continues to write this crappy posts day after day.

Be careful what you accuse them of. You'll get banned long before they will.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

ITT result:

57	ROUGIER-LAGANE Christopher	Mauritius				4:28	27.874
58	FROOME Chris	Israel - Premier Tech				,,	27.874

Christopher & Chris, 4 minutes & 28 seconds down on the winner (Pierre Latour) in a 13km ITT.

Those miles... were hard. Very hard.

Yeah, not the strongest performance by Chris but Vingo also far from his best today. The Tour will be open this year, methinks.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Yeah, not the strongest performance by Chris but Vingo also far from his best today. The Tour will be open this year, methinks.

I think Vingegaard is going to have a slower build up like Froome in the 2015-2017 years in order to do the double, plus he’s still recovering from his first double attempt.

 

[AmRacer]

Froome is the ONLY one with a career progression like he had.
By age 25 he had won nothing. He had like zero results.

then magic


Look at the palmares of any of the greats by age 25 and its clear they are a talent.

Vinge?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Vinge?

He was a Tour runner-up while still 24.

 

[AmRacer]

He was a Tour runner-up while still 24.

24 or 25, same same but not so different.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Vinge?

Vingegaard podiumed the Tour at 24 and won his first WT victory at 22. While his rapid rise was suspicious as well it didn't happen overnight like Froome's.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

24 or 25, same same but not so different.

Froome was a Vuelta runner-up (later he was given the victory) at the age of 26 years and 4 months. Vingo was a Tour runner-up at the age of 24 years and 7 months. So the difference is closer to two years actually. Plus Vingo showed more stage-race potential before (and a few nice results) but OFC his 2020-2022 leap was spectacular as well.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Vinge?

Was 24 when he finished second in the TDF.

 

[veganrob]

Vingegaard podiumed the Tour at 24 and won his first WT victory at 22. While his rapid rise was suspicious as well it didn't happen overnight like Froome's.

Yeah, and Froome was literally over night.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Froome will redefine the meaning 'slow' in Czecho - slo - vakia.

That joke would have worked well pre-1993, except for the fact that Froome would have 7 or under.

 

[Izzyeviel]

There's always the tour of..... slow venia

 

[SHAD0W93]

There's always the tour of..... slow venia

Or Tour of Italy presented by Olive Garden.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Chris's poor TT performances are somewhat disturbing. For this reason he may lose his dream #5 Tour victory at the very end, in Nice. Not nice!

 

[Izzyeviel]

Top 30 on GC. This might be his best ever performance in a stage race since he joined IPT

 

[SHAD0W93]

Top 30 on GC. This might be his best ever performance in a stage race since he joined IPT

He finished 24th lasted year.time I said, this year if he can’t match that with a day off from the TTT he’s starting with worse shape.

 

[Taxus4a]

Top 30 on GC. This might be his best ever performance in a stage race since he joined IPT

21th, top 30 sound quite worse...He was more than halff the stage in a break...considering that and that he IS not looking what he lose, just helping the team and he team is leader...It is ok. If he was fighteen to lose the Minimum time to lose 5 min with this people, would be much time. He has 2 mates stronger at this parte of the season for a race with so short stages...but one is the strongest of the race and the other is very close, he did an amazing job acording Rubén Plaza words