Teams & Riders Froome Talk Only

[zlev11]

Contador represented the end of Lance's control and dominance, over the team, the peloton, the media, and the Tour. That was more than enough for a control freak, egomaniac, and narcissist like Armstrong.

Lance couldn't cower him. Contador reacted to Lance with more a passive-aggressive approach than either fearing him or directly confronting him. He had no idea how to deal with it. Maddening to someone like Lance. Couldn't even respect him after time. Still seething about it.

yup he still hates him. and Iban Mayo. brings them up all the time on his podcast. he can't accept that sometimes they were just better than him.

 

[red_flanders]

yup he still hates him. and Iban Mayo. brings them up all the time on his podcast. he can't accept that sometimes they were just better than him.

I heard the bit about Mayo as well, I laughed, I didn't know that. What was it like one Ventoux defeat in the Dauphine? I can't recall exactly, but it's not like Mayo was some world beater. What a character that guy is.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Didn't Lance grass Mayo up to the UCI after he went ultra-mythical on Ventoux or am I imagining things?

 

[zlev11]

I heard the bit about Mayo as well, I laughed, I didn't know that. What was it like one Ventoux defeat in the Dauphine? I can't recall exactly, but it's not like Mayo was some world beater. What a character that guy is.

yeah I honestly don't understand why he dislikes Mayo so much. it started at the 2003 Dauphine I think. I don't know if something specific happened at that race or if he's just mad that Mayo tried to race him.

 

[gillan1969]

poor Froome.....becoming irrelevant in his own thread.....

 

[ZamlinusYoutubeious]

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/bctj_NTrnFI?feature=share

 

[JosefK]

Just posting here today (stage 16 TDF TT) to give Vingo's thread a 30-second break.

 

[meat puppet]

Just posting here today (stage 16 TDF TT) to give Vingo's thread a 30-second break.

And yet this is nothing. After froome's PSM 2015 the forum crashed and was offline for some time. Those were the days.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Dawg cleanz

 

[ThisFrenchGuy]

yup he still hates him. and Iban Mayo. brings them up all the time on his podcast. he can't accept that sometimes they were just better than him.

The obvious sour grapes of Lance on the 2009 podium were a real joy. Arguably finishing 3rd with a late comeback, as an older rider, and against your own Maillot Jaune teammate was a really good performance (let's set aside the question of how charged with enhancements might have been) but he looked utterly deflated and couldn't enjoy any of it.

That was a petty, inconsequential satisfaction but heh sue me