Reset the Froome-o-meter
Chris Froome has returned to racing at the UAE Tour. Those who called out his crash back in June 2019Continue Reading
Tag: Chris Froome
Pro cycling perspective and the lure of retirement
2019 was the year of the early retirement. First it was Marcel Kittel. Aged 31, the gloriously coiffured German wasContinue Reading
**Reduced price for one week only** The Grand Tour Diaries 2018
In 2018, some pretty damn entertaining bike racing took place. There was Chris Froome’s Lazurus-like comeback at the Giro d’Italia;Continue Reading
Tour de France 2018 Stage 14: “Ignore ’em Froomey, they’re not worth it”
When the Tour de France races up to the airfield at Mende, in the region of Occitanie, as it didContinue Reading
Tour de France 2018 Stage 12: Froomey, we have a situation
Post-stage Thomas, having consolidated his Yellow Jersey, continued to give it the genial jack-the-lad Welshman, praising Froome and toeing the team-leader line. As TV’s Ned Boulting noted yesterday, regarding Team Sky’s internal politics: “at the very least we have a situation.”
Tour de France 2018 Stage 11: Sky-shaped
The Tour de France, for the riders, is death by a thousand cuts. The drip-drip of hourly, daily, weekly sufferingContinue Reading
Chris Froome and the tangled web of medical admin
We cycling fans now have a working knowledge of exercise induced asthma and a pretty good understanding of the effects of salbutamol. We even have such a deep understanding of the composition of Chris Froome’s urine that, if we close our eyes, we can almost taste it.
