Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

[elfed68]

I've had a schapoid fracture which didn't show after two x rays.
Went to casualty for the third time after it wasn't getting any better and the doctor put it in a cast in the presumption it was a break.
An MRI four weeks after confirmed this and was in a cast for about 5 months. It's notorious for taking a long time to heal, as the break restricts blood flow, although it can be pinned if there are complications which probably accelerates the recovery.

Mine wasn't bike related, it was Saturday night related

 

[Hawkwood]

Wow it sounds like one of the worst fractures you can get...on paper a collarbone fracture seems more "spectacular" but it normally heals quickly and well.

I can tell you wrist fractures are no fun at all, plus wrists are complicated with eight small bones, lots of potential for the healing going wrong.

 

[ILovecycling]

Not a good injury at all,on the other hand Vuelta is 6! weeks away,thats plenty of time,he should be OK I think.Not probably at 100% form,but nobody is at Vuelta (except those who didnt ride giro or tour - betancur and ?)

 

[benpounder]

Froome has been banged about this year. Back, hip and now arm. I don't think he will ride the Vuelta somehow. As good a race as the Vuelta has been for the past few years, it's the Tour that the sponsors care about. I think Froome may rest up. He may not even do the Worlds but if he does, the Vuelta would be the best preparation for him. Maybe the frustration of his Tour will get him on the line for the Vuelta. As for his injury well the truth will out and the doubters about Froome can keep doubting. If it's not his toughness, or his medication it's something else. You have to be tough just to finish Tour let alone win it.

David Brailsford has to be second guessing. Succumbing to Froome's petulance to deny Bradley Wiggins to ride the TdF I suspect will haunt.

 

[Dr. Juice]

I forgot Quintana rides the Vuelta. CF vs NQ vs AC vs in form Rodriguez who will get a lot of tailormade muritos.

6 weeks is plenty of time, I think at worst Froome has to ride himself into top shape the first week, but that's it.

 

[movingtarget]

David Brailsford has to be second guessing. Succumbing to Froome's petulance to deny Bradley Wiggins to ride the TdF I suspect will haunt.

Froome denied having any input into team selections but some of his comments beforehand made one think otherwise. Cadel Evans always had input into the team he wanted and I'm sure other team leaders are the same. I suppose the question is would Wiggins have finished ahead of Porte considering Wiggins had not been preparing for a GT this season but was prepared to go as a domestique. I still think Wiggins could have provided good support to Froome or Porte.

 

[movingtarget]

I can tell you wrist fractures are no fun at all, plus wrists are complicated with eight small bones, lots of potential for the healing going wrong.

Sounds like the Vuelta might be a no show then for Froome.

 

[movingtarget]

"A Tour de France winner has to be able to ride on every kind of road," Prudhomme told Cyclingnews

Once again, he did not fall on the cobbles and Prudhomme would not expect riders to continue with broken wrists. Obviously the French are doing well and have not won a Tour for 30 years. According to Prudhomme's logic they just can't handle all of the conditions !

 

[elfed68]

Not a good injury at all,on the other hand Vuelta is 6! weeks away,thats plenty of time,he should be OK I think.Not probably at 100% form,but nobody is at Vuelta (except those who didnt ride giro or tour - betancur and ?)

I highly doubt the fracture will have healed by then, seems way too soon to be putting so much pressure on a newly meshed bone.

 

[ILovecycling]

I highly doubt the fracture will have healed by then, seems way too soon to be putting so much pressure on a newly meshed bone.

It depends on how the fracture looks like but hell its 6 weeks.He should be fine in a month,maybe 5 weeks and he can train to not damage it.Like someone said here,in worst case scenario he will be riding into form in 1st week.

 

[Hawkwood]

It depends on how the fracture looks like but hell its 6 weeks.He should be fine in a month,maybe 5 weeks and he can train to not damage it.Like someone said here,in worst case scenario he will be riding into form in 1st week.

It was eight weeks for my scaphoid fracture, and when the fibreglass cast came off I had little grip strength. However Froome will be getting more advanced care than me, and it could be that he has a fracture that normally heals sooner anyway.

 

[ILovecycling]

It was eight weeks for my scaphoid fracture, and when the fibreglass cast came off I had little grip strength. However Froome will be getting more advanced care than me, and it could be that he has a fracture that normally heals sooner anyway.

thats why I said...

It depends on how the fracture looks like but hell its 6 weeks.He should be fine in a month,maybe 5 weeks and he can train to not damage it.Like someone said here,in worst case scenario he will be riding into form in 1st week.

(I meant how serious it is)

 

[Hawkwood]

thats why I said...

(I meant how serious it is)

Got you, now I see.

 

[TANK91]

I bet Froome is devestated, Froome would have absoloutely killed this TDF. Contador is not even the old Contador that we thought he maybe. Porte was very good in a climb that does not suit him. I still think Contador wins the TDF, but will be funny if Richie is like 2 minutes behind.

 

[bigcog]

I bet Froome is devestated, Froome would have absoloutely killed this TDF. Contador is not even the old Contador that we thought he maybe. Porte was very good in a climb that does not suit him. I still think Contador wins the TDF, but will be funny if Richie is like 2 minutes behind.

Oh man, Froome would have obliterated them all today, damn ...

 

[Richeypen]

Oh man, Froome would have obliterated them all today, damn ...

Doubt it. This race is a lot duller without him though.

 

[bigcog]

Doubt it. This race is a lot duller without him though.

Come on, Nibali has never, and I mean never, lived with Froome on the climbs. Contador couldn't drop Nibali so I'd say he would have put time into all of them based on past form.

 

[Jspear]

Come on, Nibali has never, and I mean never, lived with Froome on the climbs. Contador couldn't drop Nibali so I'd say he would have put time into all of them based on past form.

according to the Tinkov team AC didn't even go 100%. He said he was testing his competition to see who was weak and who was strong. Even yesterday he said today was not his stage.

TANK91: your post is pure speculation. You can't say that Froome would have smoked this race, and you can't say that AC is not his old self....you simply don't know. According to the people close to him, he is as good as he ever was.

 

[bigcog]

according to the Tinkov team AC didn't even go 100%. He said he was testing his competition to see who was weak and who was strong. Even yesterday he said today was not his stage.

TANK91: your post is pure speculation. You can't say that Froome would have smoked this race, and you can't say that AC is not his old self....you simply don't know. According to the people close to him, he is as good as he ever was.

I don't doubt Contador will probably take this. Pity Froome isn't there to give him some more competition which I think most people were hoping to see.

 

[Journey Man]

Putting Ritchie back in his box...

How is Froome going to put Ritchie back on his box?

Porte has been knocking on the door for a while now. Froome comes across as very insecure with respect to his #1 position. It's going to be interesting to see how the 'special relationship' weathers this, especially if Porte podiums.

 

[JRTK73]

Come on, Nibali has never, and I mean never, lived with Froome on the climbs. Contador couldn't drop Nibali so I'd say he would have put time into all of them based on past form.

Can I remind people that it was a category 3 climb? It is very rare than any serious GC contender looses time on a cat 3.

 

[Afrank]

Can I remind people that it was a category 3 climb? It is very rare than any serious GC contender looses time on a cat 3.

+1, across the forum we all seem to be making quite a big deal out of what is in the long run a pretty minor stage. It really was only just a few climbs at the end and none of them super difficult or long.

I'm going to wait and see what happens the rest of the Tour before declaring anything.

 

[TANK91]

lol just a cat 3 you say? Did not stop ll the other's losing huge times.

 

[Jspear]

lol just a cat 3 you say? Did not stop ll the other's losing huge times.

This. I don't speak for everyone, but I know that some were making a slight deal about it because if Nibali shows weakness on that sort of climb (and I think he was), then he will show even more in the harder stages.

 

[Taxus4a]

Can I remind people that it was a category 3 climb? It is very rare than any serious GC contender looses time on a cat 3.

Organizers can put that climb as they want, but a climb with 3 kms with 1 km at 10, with maximum of 16 % after more climbs, is a climb to make differences, of course.

Muur the Huy is lees than that an make differences.