Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

[Samu Cuenca]

What's Dawg's 2026 race programme?
Any news?
I don't find it on PCS

I believe he's targeting the three big ones:

Holmenkollen Ski Festival
Monaco Grand Prix
Strictly Come Dancing

 

[YavorD]

When I saw Chris Foroome's thread above Visma's, I thought he indeed signed for them.
They could use the dual leader approach again in the Tour.

But sadly, no official confirmation...yet.

 

[topcat]

We should throw Chris a retirement party on the forum and mark off one day on the Calendar when we can celebrate his career every year

 

[Rob5091]

Missing persons report - Have you seen this man? (been just as online quiet as Rozman)
https://velo.outsideonline.com/road...e-how-a-tour-de-france-dominator-disappeared/

His social media accounts are dead, his Strava is barren, and of course, his email account doesn’t seem to work for a nosy *** like me.

So what’s happened to Chris Froome?

 

[yaco]

For me this article reinforces why Froome has taken this path. There is nothing wrong with fading into the background.

 

[Unchained]

Jim Cotton should be humiliated and ashamed of that garbage. Couldn't contact, Froome, his agent, his teammates, his business partners and still wrote an article about what, where, who Froome is currently.. Just because he was thinking about what he thought he saw years ago. I am not a writer or a researcher or a detective or a fan and I can, could have written a more informative piece about a TDF champion, absolutely disgraceful.
Please write about Elvis or Bigfoot.. Absolute goon job..Cycling News thanks for dodging that bullet shaped like dog dung.
Guy wrote an article about not being able to get any data about writing an article?
Why wait for AI( Artificial Intelligence) when this gets published
Froome is a champion not a chump, do the work

 

[dazaau]

For me this article reinforces why Froome has taken this path. There is nothing wrong with fading into the background.

If only he had done so sooner, he hung on so long it's become awkward

 

[stonerider]

Froome hung around too long and tarnished what could have been a great legacy. All his lies that he was putting out watts in training as good as his winning days while he was milking his last pro contract and then show up to minor races and being a donkey among race horses. That to me makes me question his wins and his integrity.

 

[Wyndbrook]

Jim Cotton should be humiliated and ashamed of that garbage. Couldn't contact, Froome, his agent, his teammates, his business partners and still wrote an article about what, where, who Froome is currently.. Just because he was thinking about what he thought he saw years ago. I am not a writer or a researcher or a detective or a fan and I can, could have written a more informative piece about a TDF champion, absolutely disgraceful.
Please write about Elvis or Bigfoot.. Absolute goon job..Cycling News thanks for dodging that bullet shaped like dog dung.
Guy wrote an article about not being able to get any data about writing an article?
Why wait for AI( Artificial Intelligence) when this gets published
Froome is a champion not a chump, do the work

So Outside would like readers to subscribe to garbage like this, forget AI, my wifes guinea pigs could have written a better article.

 

[Unchained]

So Outside would like readers to subscribe to garbage like this, forget AI, my wifes guinea pigs could have written a better article.

Some of the original intentions and explanations for artificial intelligence are fascinating. Take for instance a life changing thing like breast cancer diagnosis. Using AI you have your results compared with potentially millions of either negative or positive results and that vast data would assist your doctor or doctors with coming up with a treatment plan. Here's what @20-30,000 doctors did when they saw xrays and MRIs similar to yours.
Now with writing AI can take thousands if not millions of things previously written and combine everything to come up with something slightly new based on the same or similar subject, like Chris Froome, basically nothing new or informative, just a hybrid manipulation of already known data to fill space.
If you look at the Froome story from boyhood trajectory, the guy has an almost one of a kind cycling life.
Who he is as a racer and a person deserves work and attention to get facts both old and new. And new and fresh anything about him is critical in my opinion, because if writers and producers wait too long to report on Froome, his story will naturally fade a bit as others like Tadej Pogocar suck up all the oxygen in the room.

I was a huge, multi year fan if not fanatic for Velonews..to a lesser degree I almost always enjoyed Outside magazine, I will try and be kind, but I don't buy anything from them, don't read anything from them intentionally, if someone links an article, I usually look at it.
They had great opportunities in my opinion to feature awesome writers from New York Times and Wall Street Journal, guys who are, were bike racing freaks but worked at places that by design rarely covered bike racers or races. In my opinion Velonews was a squandered chance that looks to never return.
There were really only 2 cycling outlets in US market, Winning magazine and Velonews magazine both run into the ground and ruined ..places like Cycling News have done a pretty good job filling the void for American bike racing fans, CN has a surprisingly good balance of stuff about US teams, riders and races, the people at Outside are nowhere close

 

[TourOfSardinia]

The 40-year-old four-time Tour de France winner is currently working for the French company Vekta.
Vetka states that, as the company's chief innovation officer, Froome will be "working closely with the leadership team across product innovation, performance modelling and long-term platform strategy, helping to ensure that Vekta’s technology reflects how athletes really train, race and adapt over time."
"For me, this is about rolling up my sleeves and helping build what comes next in performance," Froome said in the same press release, "and I’m very excited to get stuck in”.

New part-time employment for Chris Froome but cycling career remains officially on hold for now

Four-time Tour de France winner takes on role in AI training platform company

www.cyclingnews.com

Rolling up my sleeves is the new Hard miles

 

[topcat]

New part-time employment for Chris Froome but cycling career remains officially on hold for now

Four-time Tour de France winner takes on role in AI training platform company

www.cyclingnews.com

Rolling up my sleeves is the new Hard miles

Cycling career "on hold" but he's open to offers. I think with the right offer, he could be convinced to ride on.

 

[Rob5091]

Froomey was working with Vetka last year -
https://www.rouleur.cc/blogs/desire...he-new-ai-app-already-used-by-worldtour-teams

Vekta deployed AI to help understand the effect of temperature and altitude on individual riders and worked with Chris Froome for this. “From that we gained some credibility, gained some connections and finally went out to raise some funds and built a training platform on top of all this knowledge.”

The press release - https://joinvekta.com/blog/chris-froome-joins-vekta

 

[Gratemans]

New part-time employment for Chris Froome but cycling career remains officially on hold for now

Four-time Tour de France winner takes on role in AI training platform company

www.cyclingnews.com

Rolling up my sleeves is the new Hard miles

Don't be so hard on him, he's out of a job and clearly desperate for a way to be able to pay the mortgage..