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SeriousSam said:
Taxus4a said:
As I predicted the first mountain stage, Quintana is a pure clumber and with more mountain stages on the lesg he could put time one day to Froome, that is not a pure climber, and more of we talk of this short stages, bacouse Froome prefer long stages,
Anyway Froome is very good in this kind of long climbs, as we see in his first tour in 2008 in Croix de fer and in the thirs week, so except with Quintana he is putting time on the rest.
Quintana has years to win le Tour, I would prefer not this year becouse Froome deserves more Tours that just the one he has, but tomorrow everything can happend, and the best must win. Quintana showed in il Giro he is very good in a mountain climb ITT, and tomorrow is something like that... Alp D huez is a little bit hard fro Froome respect Quintana, so, everything is possible, Quunata has to do a "Sastre", but if Froome just let him go and climb intelligent, except a good crisis, with the level he showed today, he must win le Tour.
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just stop
Why?
As I supossed you didnt read my article about Froome story, un unpolished diamond.
I going to put that part for you.
"I saw him last year in some races and I could tell I was a good racer , "said Barloworld team manager Claudio Corti to Cyclingnews on the 23-year-old. After testing him out in Such prestigious one-day races as the Criterium International, Gent-Wevelgem, Amstel Gold, Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Corti Decided to let Froome be the first Kenyan rider to line up in the Grande Boucle.
"I Was Told at the Beginning of the Year That riding the Tour was possible - it was not one-hundred percent," commented Froome. "I went well in the beginning of the season and I Showed potential. really I only knew a couple of weeks before , there were a few of us up for the two spots. "
Corti did not regret his choice. "This year, I had his ups and downs, but I was good When I was flying. I remember the moment I was there at the basis of the [Tour's] Alpe d'Huez With The favorites - I did a great ride," I said.
That day they climbed Galibier and Croix de fer before Alp D Huez.
"The team manager looks forward to seeing his young talent develop. " He is strong in the time trial and on the climbs, in theory he is suited for stage races. He still has to Improve, he is young. " Froome Agreed with His team manager's assessment: "The two strengths That I have are time trialling and climbing, and I prefer longer events - Grand Tours make sense. I obviously have a lot of work to do on my time trialling and climbing to Reach That point. "
This interview is from 2009.
Schumacher was caught 4.7 km from the top of the Iron Cross climb.
The yellow jersey's group thinned down to 18 riders before the top Including: Evans, Aerts, Tailor, Arvesen, Schleck, Schleck, Valverde, Arroyo, Siutsou, Froome , Fofonov, Efimkin, Goubert, Valjavec, Kohl, Menchov, Weening, Casar, Moncoutie and Vande Velde. At the top, led by Velits 1'10 ". Soon after the summit, Pineau and caught the yellow jersey's Attacked peloton caught the stage leader and 30km from the finish. The peloton was at 1'50 ".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m70zrQCwUvU
In this video we confirmed that Froome is in sixth place (sec 21) in the favourites group, looking as comfortable as he said in his later statements. It is not the fact of being there, nor the fact of been 31th at the end. It is the fact he looked strong in key points of the Tour, and he had a mistake that did not allowed him to be top 15 or who knows in the Queen stage ...
While Carlos Sastre and Fränk Schleck out-foxed Cadel Evans on the Alpe d'Huez, Froome learnt the tricks of the trade.
"One moment, during the Alpe d'Huez stage, Corti called me back to the car to get more gels. I said, 'No, no. I am fine.' I just had one gel in my pocket. About four kilometres into Alpe d'Huez I blew completely and lost a hell of a lot of time. That hit home how important energy is, that showed me a lesson. He said, 'Why did you not come back? You needed about 10 gels, not one!'"
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http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/riders/2008/interviews/?id=chris_froome_nov08 )
You has to consider that the team had just 4 riders that year, it was a hard Tour for Barlowold, and someone had to help Hunter. Froome obviously want thinking in a place in GC, but to help Hunter and some days just learn what is a GT as hard as le Tour.
He knew just 2 weeks before he would be in le Tour, iot was just his first Year in Europe and his second as a pro rider. and his 4th year as rider, for Contador his forst was with 9 years of cycling, with the best school, not African Konika Minolta
If you consider Froome came from Africa, that he started cycling just 3 years ago with 20 and that his first GT was le Tour and he was so strong in the Queen stage and he was 14 in the last ITT, and if you compare with cointador first Tour, when he was always free to work and he couldnt be better of 30 in any stage, thet had the same age, but Contador had mucho more experience in cycling, if you underestand a little about cycling Froome Tour was more promising, but you need to look at the details and the hole story of Froome, not just the mediatic things...
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