Off topic but this reminded me of a story about him. There was a group ride in Florida a few of years back, one of those charity events I think, with Froome and some of the ISN/Sky guys. Geraint Thomas saw Froome going into the bushes for what he assumed was a bathroom break and was shocked to find an excited Froome running after an alligator and trying to wrestle with it.
Cavendish all the British kids wanted to emulate, Thomas boring but the grandma's here love him for some reason, Bradley Wiggins in 2012, whatever you might think of him, at that Olympics it was like David Beckham turned up. Froome? Our most successful cyclist, it's like he has zero public profile, it's like he's been completely eliminated from history, not positive, not negative, just not there. I still have no idea if he's really Kenyan, British, South African, Monégasque, Israeli. A nowhere man.
The sharp rise/fall and noise around Sky masked just what a weird person the man Chris Froome is, even without any clinic references, it's in a cyclists nature to bluff, to lie, so unfortunately I don't think his true story will ever be told.
Sorry gone off on a tangent here, yeah UAE Tour, Remco ftw tomorrow.
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