best first post ever.I will be the winner of 2021 tour de france.
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best first post ever.I will be the winner of 2021 tour de france.
I wish, i took you in CQ game)I will be the winner of 2021 tour de france.
I will be the winner of 2021 tour de france.
Ahah guys i'm just kidding. I'm a big fan of froome, but i know that it will be very difficult for him to win the tour. But it would be a amazing achievement after what happened.best first post ever.
Ahah guys i'm just kidding. I'm a big fan of froome, but i know that it will be very difficult for him to win the tour. But it would be a amazing achievement after what happened.
Actually speaking truth to a sponsor....wonder how that will turn out for him? I anticipate a follow-up statement.Came out against disc brakes.
I think I am starting to like this post marginal gains Chris Froome
We will see in the next months how it goes really. He was doing rehab and gym in the last 3 months in california, for sure he wasn't doing trainings with a lot of intensity in the bike. So, is a little soon to say that froome is done. If in the next months froome doesn't improve, i will agree with you on saying that froome is done.Don't believe the hype.
Remember the ISN owner Adams saying words to the effect of: 'We've seen the data, Froome's numbers and they are what we want them to be,' when signing him.
Now we know Froome's right leg (which is held together with a metal pole) was recently 20% less powerful than the left.
Also factor in his left leg isn't as powerful as pre-crash.
The latest buzz-phrase coming from Froome and ISN is that both legs are now 'balanced' better than ever before.
Yeah, they're probably now both around 85% of peak power. Great balance.
Good luck with that.
We'll probably have to get use'd to the fact that Froome is currently as good as he's ever going to be.
We will see in the next months how it goes really. He was doing rehab and gym in the last 3 months in california, for sure he wasn't doing trainings with a lot of intensity in the bike. So, is a little soon to say that froome is done. If in the next months froome doesn't improve, i will agree with you on saying that froome is done.
If he's still rehabbing this season will be more of the same; refinding his pedal-stroke and where his power begins. He may have some results by season's end but IMO he won't be at whatever will be his new top end until 2022. His leg was seriously fu*cked up. Like Tiger Woods level of damage.We will see in the next months how it goes really. He was doing rehab and gym in the last 3 months in california, for sure he wasn't doing trainings with a lot of intensity in the bike. So, is a little soon to say that froome is done. If in the next months froome doesn't improve, i will agree with you on saying that froome is done.
Not bad for a rider that in last 3 months was in california doing rehab and gym, and didn't a lot of training in the bike. Let's see how it goes in catalunya.There have been too many lies and false dawns and promises regarding Chris Froome's condition.
Maybe the incentive was to land a fat contract at ISN.
If so, job done.
However, and I can't believe I'm saying this, his form at the current UAE tour is sticking one in the eye to the critics on here that said he was always going to be total garbage from now on.
Currently sitting 40th out of an elite World Tour field of 130 is not abysmal.
Not great I agree, but if he can be respectable and maybe have the odd moment in his three years with ISN then good luck to him and maybe we, including myself, should get off his back little bit.
He was helping, you could see him near the front and in the wind for a number of kms.What happened today on the final stage of the UAE Tour?
Froome finished over 3.00mins down on a flat sprint stage.
Maybe he took his foot off the gas or maybe he just didn't have the power to keep up with the charge to the line.
ISN had plenty of bodies up there in the finale so were going for the sprint via AG so I think Froome would definitely be wanted to help out.
What happened to him?
I didn't get the coverage but feel the great need to let you know your CN forum name is incredible!He was helping, you could see him near the front and in the wind for a number of kms.
He seemed fairly happy in that interview how things are going , so maybe he is a bit more confident he might get back to how he was. Fingers crossed.