https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/1057974572279087106
Hope he doesnt have any issue like his old pal Sergio
Hope he doesnt have any issue like his old pal Sergio
So he's going to Colombia to ....? Meet Rigoberto? Stay at altitude until July?MartinGT said:https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/1057974572279087106
Hope he doesnt have any issue like his old pal Sergio
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I think you missed who are really the BESTBUDDIES.....Robert5091 said:So he's going to Colombia to ....? Meet Rigoberto? Stay at altitude until July?MartinGT said:https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/1057974572279087106
Hope he doesnt have any issue like his old pal Sergio
Edit- see he's off to the US to meet some buddies -
https://www.bestbuddieschallenge.org/miami/event-overview/
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G should have known and should have gone elsewhere as he's had that chance more than once now. Bernal I do feel bad for because he'll never have a chance. Although, I've questioned rather he'd actually ever get a real chance at Sky to begin with.hfer07 said:So.....
The Magic Kenyan wants another 5 years of racing........ is it a warning to "G" & Benal?![]()
or is it too much greed? See- I laughed at some folks here commenting that Froome is (((fading))) when in reality he's actually getting much more stronger, based on his back-to-back GT winning & performances over the last 2 years - yes- his explosiveness has diminished, but when a rider pulls a "nuclear Giro" and "pretends" to be tired at the Tour to keep appearances after his AAF debacle, then anything is possible.....
I truly feel bad for G, but specially for Bernal- whose ambitions will be plundered to shape him as a mere "super domestique" for the next five years of his contract.........
"Pretends to be tired at the Tour""hfer07 said:So.....
The Magic Kenyan wants another 5 years of racing........ is it a warning to "G" & Benal?![]()
or is it too much greed? See- I laughed at some folks here commenting that Froome is (((fading))) when in reality he's actually getting much more stronger, based on his back-to-back GT winning & performances over the last 2 years - yes- his explosiveness has diminished, but when a rider pulls a "nuclear Giro" and "pretends" to be tired at the Tour to keep appearances after his AAF debacle, then anything is possible.....
I truly feel bad for G, but specially for Bernal- whose ambitions will be plundered to shape him as a mere "super domestique" for the next five years of his contract.........
tranqui, before Colombia I think he'll travel there for some forum banter. or maybe after.TourOfSardinia said:Did Sothern Africa tighten up doping controls?
Did Froome swap continent this winter?
To now be talking about another five years of top level riding - which is not necessarily winning the Tour - isn't that out of whack with his earlier comment.“I’ve got my goals, and personally where I want my career to go is to target the Tour, not just this year but for the next six or seven years. I am driven by that goal, not from a fame point of view.”
Merckx index said:Froome will be 34 next year. In the past 95 years, only Evans has won a TDF having reached that age upon entering it--a Tour decimated by injuries to most of the contenders, and in which the strongest rider was dealing with previously having won the the Giro--and he never won another one. Yet people think Froome is going to kill Bernal's career? Seriously?
I wonder how many people believe Tom Brady, when he says he plans to play till he's 45, or believed (the now apparently retired) Ichiro, who once said he wanted to play till he was 50.
I wouldn't say it's that sudden, but more that a 1% difference is much more significant when you're walking a fine line between thin wins and thin losses than a 2% difference when you're head and shoulders above the rest anyway.samhocking said:Is the dropoff that sudden at 34? Froome at 33 just had the best last 12 months of GT performances so far in his entire career didn't he? Evans at 33 hadn't, so no comparison. He will begin to fade, but there should be time for 1 or 2 more Tour De France podiums I would think.
Yep ... all valid and convincing points.Red Rick said:I wouldn't say it's that sudden, but more that a 1% difference is much more significant when you're walking a fine line between thin wins and thin losses than a 2% difference when you're head and shoulders above the rest anyway.samhocking said:Is the dropoff that sudden at 34? Froome at 33 just had the best last 12 months of GT performances so far in his entire career didn't he? Evans at 33 hadn't, so no comparison. He will begin to fade, but there should be time for 1 or 2 more Tour De France podiums I would think.
While his results in 2017/2018 have included the best 12 month stretch of his career, I don't think he's at the highest level he's ever been. The only argument for that in my opinion would be Finestre 2019, and I think that stage is more circumstance than anything else, and the Froome of 2013 or PSM 2015 could have easily done that as well.
And there's also a change of guard. The likes of Dumoulin, Roglic and Yates have been closing the gap. I think the time of Tour wins over the likes of Bardet and Uran is over.