Teams & Riders Froome Talk Only

[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

 

[Pozzovivo]

I take the liberty to ask here instead of in the clinic since it is currently not considered a doping offence officially, did Froome ever speak out about the salbutamol case in public? I can't find any thorough interveiws.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

I take the liberty to ask here instead of in the clinic since it is currently not considered a doping offence officially, did Froome ever speak out about the salbutamol case in public? I can't find any thorough interviews.

In https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/44679483 says he said "He was grateful and relieved" : that's about it.

 

[tonymikejoe]

I take the liberty to ask here instead of in the clinic since it is currently not considered a doping offence officially, did Froome ever speak out about the salbutamol case in public? I can't find any thorough interveiws.

His biggest issue was the fact it became public.
Froome made an absolutely huge issue about that.

 

[Pozzovivo]

His biggest issue was the fact it became public.
Froome made an absolutely huge issue about that.

Understandable from his perspective.

 

[Pozzovivo]

In https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/44679483 says he said "He was grateful and relieved" : that's about it.

He says a bit more than that in the piece really. But still, we lack the proper report on what happened and how/why it was solved. Just stating the desicion not to punish him for it leaves more questions than answers really.

I was thinking about it in relation to the other athetes who did serve a suspension for the same "offence". Curious how WADA and UCI can come to a satisfcatory conclusion that there was no wrongdoing here, but maintain the suspensions for the prior athetes and future suspensions for other athletes. But anyway, no justice for Ulissi...

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

Cycling is nothing if not inconsistent in how it punishes violations. Some get banished (Lance, Bruyneel), some get punished (Contador), and some get whitewashed (Froome). I’m sure someone has an explanation or insight into the underlying mechanisms behind it.