Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

[JimPanzen]

99 C, FROOME 4:57:57 01:13


He is recovering. I think he will be to show something next days.

Good for him. And no he won't.

 

[Taxus4a]

He had broken his scaphoid and need surgery. It is a pity he will be out of competition some time.😢😢

 

[DNP-Old]

Man, life is so unfair. That's another asterisk next to this years TDF winner.

 

[Savant12]

He had broken his scaphoid and need surgery. It is a pity he will be out of competition some time.😢😢

Thought the X-ray cleared him to race. Did he crash again?

Anyway, time to pack it in Chris.

 

[Lequack]

Darn, broken wrist, just like Pog last year.

 

[Netserk]

Darn, broken wrist, just like Pog last year.

So he will have to settle for 2nd in the Tour?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

He had broken his scaphoid and need surgery. It is a pity he will be out of competition some time.😢😢

Oh that explains it. So sad.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Hang in there champ.

 

[Taxus4a]

Thought the X-ray cleared him to race. Did he crash again?

Anyway, time to pack it in Chris.

He didnt crash again. He was compiting with a broken scaphoid...I dont know if the first x-ray was wrong, they didnt watch It very well or he did another one. But yesterday night a X-ray confirmes is Broken and maybe need surgery

If Imis this case, Pogacar took 2 month to come back to compete after the same at Lieje, but he was very strong at le Tour, so I am optimistic...but of course is not the best moment to an injury like this. Hope to see him competing in May anyway, if the surgery go well.

 

[Taxus4a]

“After crashing on stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico, Chris Froome underwent an X-ray on his left wrist which did not indicate a fracture. Despite managing to race stages 3 and 4, Chris underwent advanced imaging at the earliest possible moment after stage 4 where an MRI confirmed a scaphoid fracture,” his team said.

“Chris will return home to see a specialist to determine whether surgery will be necessary and to advise a treatment and recovery plan.”

 

[Unchained]

“After crashing on stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico, Chris Froome underwent an X-ray on his left wrist which did not indicate a fracture. Despite managing to race stages 3 and 4, Chris underwent advanced imaging at the earliest possible moment after stage 4 where an MRI confirmed a scaphoid fracture,” his team said.

“Chris will return home to see a specialist to determine whether surgery will be necessary and to advise a treatment and recovery plan.”

Issue is not surgery for Froome, it's quality race days, you can't climb w a fiberglass cast, or immobilizer on your wrist and he needs race days and his team would be silly for a Giro selection even if he was 100% and getting quality results, he wasn't doing either before cracked wrist. TDF in the real world should have always been out of the question..They should shoot for a Vuelta farewell tour, don't know what all this is proving. Team must be flush with money to fund Rwanda and now this.. Team is getting the jersey out there for the right reasons but looks like a wash when so much media is focused on failing, flailing Froome, not a good look

 

[AmRacer]

@Froome, please give us an update. When will you be back? Are you hanging up your wheels?

 

[Taxus4a]

Hope news soon...It is not normal the lack of info becouse he is a mediatic rider.
For Poggi was 2 month without compiting, He broked more than the scaphoid, and It was complicated, but Mikel Bizcarra needed surgery, and It was just one month for next race, and he was not bad there, and a moth later (2 from the crash) at Pais Vasco he was 25th, more or least the best level he can reach. And Froome injury shouldnt be very bad becouse they didnt detect It at a first X-ray. It would be good to know if he need surgery and how IS going on. 🤔😢

 

[rallybanana]

Hope news soon...It is not normal the lack of info becouse he is a mediatic rider.

But lack of info is normal for a mediocre rider

 

[Taxus4a]

But lack of info is normal for a mediocre rider

He could be mediocre, but he has lot of followers and he is the only pro rider today that can get the record of 5 Tour, máximum today. And It is not about media. It is just his Instagram to put something.

 

[saunaking]

he is the only pro rider today that can get the record of 5 Tour, máximum today.

bro, i love you. But please stop

 

[Pinot's goat]

No surgery after all and back on the bike. Incredible skills of recovery, potentially on the startlist of GP Miguel Indurain (which is no longer call GP Miguel Indurain).

 

[Taxus4a]

No surgery after all and back on the bike. Incredible skills of recovery, potentially on the startlist of GP Miguel Indurain (which is no longer call GP Miguel Indurain).

I have just readed It..Good news! https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.co...cture-and-is-back-on-the-bike-following-crash

 

[ManicJack]

I have just readed It..Good news! https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.co...cture-and-is-back-on-the-bike-following-crash

He didn't call you first?

 

[JimPanzen]

No surgery after all and back on the bike. Incredible skills of recovery, potentially on the startlist of GP Miguel Indurain (which is no longer call GP Miguel Indurain).

It's good news for him. But what does this have to do with "Incredible skills of recovery"? This kind of fracture can be severe needing surgery or less severe healing conventional.

 

[Pinot's goat]

It's good news for him. But what does this have to do with "Incredible skills of recovery"? This kind of fracture can be severe needing surgery or less severe healing conventional.

Pogacar took two months before his first race back, Froome will be back within 3 weeks. Indisputable evidence of superior recovery.

 

[red_flanders]

Pogacar took two months before his first race back, Froome will be back within 3 weeks. Indisputable evidence of superior recovery.

Indeed. Unless...and forgive me for my impertinence...he exaggerated his injuries?

Nah. Not Froome...

 

[veganrob]

Pogacar took two months before his first race back, Froome will be back within 3 weeks. Indisputable evidence of superior recovery.

Three weeks at most. Let's not forget he overcame badzilla not once, but three times.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Pogacar took two months before his first race back, Froome will be back within 3 weeks. Indisputable evidence of superior recovery.

Why even bother to compare? Froomey is a 7-time GT champion, holder or a non-calendar GT slam while Teddy just fluked two TdF titles before the Skeletor era.

 

[Taxus4a]

Pogacar took two months before his first race back, Froome will be back within 3 weeks. Indisputable evidence of superior recovery.

Pogacar crash was much more important, he had a much bigger fracture in the scaphoid and as well the bone beside broken. Froome fracture wanst watch at a first look and dont need surgery. Mikel Bizkarra needed surgery and was riding quite well 1 moth later of the fracture.
Anyway Froome did 2 long stages, with some climbs, with a fracture in a painfull bone, so that has his mérito...no compared with the Tour of Hamilton with the collarblone broken 🤣 but not bad.