Teams & Riders Froome Talk Only

[Froome]

The only one you had such an outlandish claim he could win.

The only focus for him in 2019 was the tour. He was in great shape before the crash, he was doing the numbers of his life on his trains in teide. So i believe that he would win that tour. Not certainly obviously, just a belief.

 

[Ripper]

The only focus for him in 2019 was the tour. He was in great shape before the crash, he was doing the numbers of his life on his trains in teide. So i believe that he would win that tour. Not certainly obviously, just a belief.

Never believe an athlete's reports on their numbers in training.

Pretty sure his only focus of a number of other years was also the tour.

 

[SHAD0W93]

The only focus for him in 2019 was the tour. He was in great shape before the crash, he was doing the numbers of his life on his trains in teide. So i believe that he would win that tour. Not certainly obviously, just a belief.

He had showed nothing in the way of having form to win on top of not being the undisputed leader as before. Ineos had 3 riders they would have been riding for, not just him. Bernal and Thomas actually showed something that year compared to him. He could have top 10 but win was out of reach.

 

[Pinot's goat]

He had showed nothing in the way of having form to win on top of not being the undisputed leader as before. Ineos had 3 riders they would have been riding for, not just him. Bernal and Thomas actually showed something that year compared to him. He could have top 10 but win was out of reach.

Froome was favourite to win the Dauphine and dropped Buchmann (4th at TDF) and Kruijswijk (3rd at TDF) on stage 2. Bernal would be dropped by Buchmann on LPDBF and Thomas would be dropped by both in the pyrenees although Thomas did crash tbf.

 

[Froome]

He had showed nothing in the way of having form to win on top of not being the undisputed leader as before. Ineos had 3 riders they would have been riding for, not just him. Bernal and Thomas actually showed something that year compared to him. He could have top 10 but win was out of reach.

The level that thomas and bernal showed in that tour, wasn't superior to froome's level.
Pogacar and roglic level in 2020 it's other different story, in that case i would have a lot of doubts because their level was super high, but bernal and thomas wasn't like that.

 

[SHAD0W93]

The level that thomas and bernal showed in that tour, wasn't superior to froome's level.
Pogacar and roglic level in 2020 it's other different story, in that case i would have a lot of doubts because their level was super high, but bernal and thomas wasn't like that.

Maybe 2013 and 2015 Froome.

Froome was favourite to win the Dauphine and dropped Buchmann (4th at TDF) and Kruijswijk (3rd at TDF) on stage 2. Bernal would be dropped by Buchmann on LPDBF and Thomas would be dropped by both in the pyrenees although Thomas did crash tbf.

Riders have there good and bad days. Bernal lost 2 seconds to Buchmann.

Thomas finished ahead of the two from TTT and TT and staying in the mountains. Bernal lost and gained time in the TTT and lost in TT. That would have fit Froome. The top 4 plus Pinot were very close in level in a race that wasn’t blown up as much for the top riders.

 

[hrotha]

Once again, he wasn't. His best performance ever was in stage 18 of giro 2018. He also won on zoncolan.

That was part of a wildly inconsistent performance over three weeks. Shockingly inconsistent. It eventually resulted in a brilliant victory, but also in many doubts about his future as the dominant GT contender.

 

[Ripper]

That was part of a wildly inconsistent performance over three weeks. Shockingly inconsistent. It eventually resulted in a brilliant victory, but also in many doubts about his future as the dominant GT contender.

This

 

[masking_agent]

Chris Froome hit with flare-up of parasitic worms in 2021

Israel Start-Up Nation officials confirm four-time Tour de France winner was diagnosed and treated for bilharzia, the same parasite that zapped him a decade ago.

www.velonews.com

More BS excuses from this guy as he and his doctor are still working on newer and better options as a TUE.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

From that article:

Froome also confirmed to VeloNews he was diagnosed and subsequently treated for the parasite, but did not want to elaborate, suggesting he did not want to appear he was “making excuses.” Froome did say that he was successfully treated by team doctors and that he’s had a full recovery.

But he already has a sufficient excuse - that crash!

 

[Huapango]

Except that crash is behind him now and he's fully functional. He needs a bit extra.

 

[gillan1969]

this is priceless...the new boss must have bought into badzilla...oh what a tangled web we weave.... lols

 

[carolina]

Am I the only one happy with these news? I can't wait for him to recover from the badzilla again. Pogacar should be scared!

 

[TMJ]

I couldn't believe the bilharzia headline today.
Where did that rear its heads from?
Besides that when's the last time Froome was in Africa to pick up the bug?
I don't recall any tweets from his home continent.
Are they seriously saying the parasite has lay dormant in his system for nearly a decade while he dominated GT's.
If bilharzia effects red blood cell count maybe that justifies a TUE to counter that.
Perhaps that's why we are hearing about this again.
It's also significant Froome himself did not mention it because he knows how toxic his association with bilharzia is to the cycling cognoscenti.
Unfortunately the untarnished Adams is less aware of the negative relationship between the words 'Froome' and 'bilharzia'.

 

[veganrob]

So this is actually the third time he has been treated for Bilharzia. Never mind that after one treatment nearly everyone is cured, Froome has been unlucky enough to need be treated three times now. What a *** joke this jackass is.

 

[CTQ]

I couldn't believe the bilharzia headline today.
Where did that rear its heads from?
Besides that when's the last time Froome was in Africa to pick up the bug?
I don't recall any tweets from his home continent.
Are they seriously saying the parasite has lay dormant in his system for nearly a decade while he dominated GT's.
If bilharzia effects red blood cell count maybe that justifies a TUE to counter that.
Perhaps that's why we are hearing about this again.
It's also significant Froome himself did not mention it because he knows how toxic his association with bilharzia is to the cycling cognoscenti.
Unfortunately the untarnished Adams is less aware of the negative relationship between the words 'Froome' and 'bilharzia'.

maybe i'm wrong, but i didn't see praziquantel and oxamniquine on the list of prohibited substances. Not only in Africa, but Middle East and some parts of South America

 

[SHAD0W93]

Am I the only one happy with these news? I can't wait for him to recover from the badzilla again. Pogacar should be scared!

Triple here we come.

 

[RobbieCanuck]

When Chris Froome finished third in that 2018 TdF Lance Armstrong's reaction was: "This is the beginning of the end of Chris Froome and the TdF."

Any TDF without Armstrong is a good beginning, and not an end!

 

[Ripper]

Except that crash is behind him now and he's fully functional. He needs a bit extra.

More like he needs a magical elixir of drugs that allows him to go faster, train harder, and lose weight.

 

[Ripper]

So this is actually the third time he has been treated for Bilharzia. Never mind that after one treatment nearly everyone is cured, Froome has been unlucky enough to need be treated three times now. What a *** joke this jackass is.

It's like he's going out of his way to get infected! Lolzzz

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Not much upside to Froome hopping on an elite program again. That post-badzilla supercompensation won't make him competitive with PogChamp, nor with the 2nd tier of GT specialists.

 

[MartinGT]

You think he would learn eh?

 

[MikeS369]

2022 Peak Froome.

 

[meat puppet]

Badzhilla sure is a strange beast. Even its effects on Froome change depending on whether he does well or not! During his peak domination it was occasionally spun as a "positive constraint" that in the long run allowed Froome to improve more than he would have done without it. There are links to such pieces in this very thread, but I am too lazy to dig them up.

Now we are back to the story badzhilla exclusively held him back. Mkay.

 

[TMJ]

Badzhilla sure is a strange beast. Even its effects on Froome change depending on whether he does well or not! During his peak domination it was occasionally spun as a "positive constraint" that in the long run allowed Froome to improve more than he would have done without it. There are links to such pieces in this very thread, but I am too lazy to dig them up.

Now we are back to the story badzhilla exclusively held him back. Mkay.

This is correct.
His old boss Dave Brailsford once memorably said that Chris gained an advantage by training and racing with bilharzia.
The logic being that once 'cured' that physical handbrake was suddenly taken off, propelling Froome to GT greatness.