It's funny. After years of people saying that Froome is a doper as a guy out of Africa didn't show his results early. The same people are stunned that some with all the coaching from a young age is suspicious because he wins at 21 but didn't win everything at 18.
Maybe in future we can pick dopers as to when they get rid of their stabilisers.
The guy never won a TT against any competition before the lockdown.
In his jr career, he won the Junior Slovenian TT by beating Nika Cemazar by 2 seconds. He was the fastest out of 3 competitors listed.
In 2019 he won the Slovenian National TT championship over Mohoric (not known for his excellence in the discipline to put it mildly) by 30 seconds.
That’s it. He’s posted solid TT results as a pro, but you would think that he would have won 1 TT against other riders in his age group since he started competing in 2015.
All of a sudden we come out of lockdown and he beats Roglic twice. Not only that, he rivals Dumoulin on the flat section of PDBF. Not Samuel Dumoulin we’re talking about here. This is the big guy, arguably the best at his discipline. Not to mention Roglic, who has won countless TTs since turning pro, and Van Aert. He not only beat them, he crushed them.
He could’ve developed into an excellent TTer, but there is no result listed that could explain this sudden massive jump.