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Is Froome over the hill?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 42 34.4%

  • No, the GC finished 40 minutes ago but Froomie is still climbing it

    Votes: 65 53.3%

  • No he is totally winning the Vuelta

    Votes: 28 23.0%
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Ricco'

Ricco'

Aug 14, 2012
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SHAD0W93 said:
Good he finished in that group and beat Cobo. Though every time I look at the result he went from 33 to 41 currently but still in the group.
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From finishing same time as Cobo to giving him 6 minutes in the next stage. Quite an improvement, it's like a jump from 2011 Vuelta to 2012 Peyragudes level.

Expect him to go berserk with Porte in tomorrow's stage as it's 2013 again.
 
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Well, I didn't watch the stage...Not a bad result, but if he didn't work no so good looking just the time he lost...Too short stage..he is better in longer ones. Anyway he is better here than in Coppi Bartali. And he will improve these days.
 
gunara

gunara

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It started to feel like in a cult to closely watch, analyze, and discuss a rider with this kind of mundane result. It's not even bad enough to be anything special.
I know it's Chris Froome, but finishing around top 40 or being dropped by the first group is just what every rider does. Come on Chris fight the TL or whatever interesting!
 
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SHAD0W93

SHAD0W93

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Taxus4a said:
Well, I didn't watch the stage...Not a bad result, but if he didn't work no so good looking just the time he lost...Too short stage..he is better in longer ones. Anyway he is better here than in Coppi Bartali. And he will improve these days.
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According to Procycling stats he was at the back of the peloton and holding on before 5km to go on the first climb. After that they don’t mention him at all.


And the difference is Froome is trying to finish in a good place and as high as possible so trying to hang on, others don’t care.
 
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SHAD0W93

SHAD0W93

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Pinot's goat said:
I don't think Froome cares either, once he is dropped he sits up like any other rider not going for GC.
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TMJ said:
Okay, I've just watched the highlights and we had the remarkable sight of Chris Froome barely clinging onto the rear of the peloton as if there was an invisible rider between him and the last cyclist in the bunch.
To be fair he held this position for km after km and was still there with at least 23km to go.
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Doesn’t sound like it, nor with PCS saying he was hanging on for as long as possible. But we will see in the next days what his legs are saying to him.
 
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gillan1969

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samhocking said:
I don't think Froome needs to make money anymore, he's one of the highest paid in the peloton from the last decade, although clearly he does like an investment, buthe doesn't strike me that he races for monetary gain. As others have said of him, he's a stubborn hard as nails b@stard who never gives up and why he won so much.
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Chris! Chris! Chris, is that you?
 
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gunara said:
It started to feel like in a cult to closely watch, analyze, and discuss a rider with this kind of mundane result. It's not even bad enough to be anything special.
I know it's Chris Froome, but finishing around top 40 or being dropped by the first group is just what every rider does. Come on Chris fight the TL or whatever interesting!
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Perhaps the cult of the mediocre (as Salieri says in the movie Amadeus):
I will speak for you, Father. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
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SHAD0W93 said:
According to Procycling stats he was at the back of the peloton and holding on before 5km to go on the first climb. After that they don’t mention him at all.


And the difference is Froome is trying to finish in a good place and as high as possible so trying to hang on, others don’t care.
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Froome put a picture on his social nets descending ahead of the Bahrein riders...so he passed the first climb for sure..I think according what I saw now he dropped 5 km for the top of the second climb, Mendola.
 
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My heart rose when I saw that graphic during the race showing Froome in the leading breakaway group with Sivakov at al. Then, reality struck when the camera panned down the group showing no Froome, then the Peloton group with no Froome, and life continued as normal.
 
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samhocking

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Savant12 said:
My heart rose when I saw that graphic during the race showing Froome in the leading breakaway group with Sivakov at al. Then, reality struck when the camera panned down the group showing no Froome, then the Peloton group with no Froome, and life continued as normal.
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He beat Pinot by several minutes though - Winning!
 
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