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Supimilian said:red_flanders said:Supimilian said:The way some talk about him here you would think he already won the cobbles stage solo by a minute and crushed the record up Plateau de Beille.
He showed some form up the Mur after a sub-par TT and hasn't crumbled anywhere, and that's all for now. Sheesh. You would think he already had it in the bag by reading some of you guys. 2 minutes isn't all that much going into this last half.
I know enough from what I've seen to know what's going to happen. Barring a crash, he's going to throttle everyone on every mountain that matters.
Even Quintana after how he looked today? Froome looked in pain on the MdB as well.
I don't see it tbh
In an 11% slope.burning said:This time he accelerated out of saddle while doing 1000 Watts!!!
the sceptic said:this is truly absurd. Froome will put minutes into everyone.
How can anyone in their right mind believe this is clean cycling?
Their gains are certainly a lot more than marginal.the sceptic said:this is truly absurd. Froome will put minutes into everyone.
How can anyone in their right mind believe this is clean cycling?
the sceptic said:Froome must be clinically insane to do this.
He would still win the tour easily without raising as many eyebrows if he slowed down a bit.
the sceptic said:Froome must be clinically insane to do this.
He would still win the tour easily without raising as many eyebrows if he slowed down a bit.