What next for Froome?
- Thread starter smutchin
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Come again?
Paddy Power have the Froomedawg as 6th favourite for the Olympic RR
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/cycling/mens-olympics-2016?ev_oc_grp_ids=2230865
There doesn't seem to be odds for the ITT
As an aside, Peter Sagan is 3rd favourite for the mtb race!!!
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/cycling/mens-olympics-2016?ev_oc_grp_ids=2230881
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/cycling/mens-olympics-2016?ev_oc_grp_ids=2230865
There doesn't seem to be odds for the ITT
As an aside, Peter Sagan is 3rd favourite for the mtb race!!!
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/cycling/mens-olympics-2016?ev_oc_grp_ids=2230881
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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I THINK the suggestion is that he is a bit scrawny, but aren't all GT winners these days?
brommers
Years beyond my wisdom
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I think that he was suggesting that he could go for 3 jerseys, or is that too obvious?
Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
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- Quedgeley, Glos.
His two crashes this year show just how precariously close he came to repeating 2014 - and how difficult it is to string together a run of TDF wins. In a sport where the five time winners are held in such supremely high regard he would be crazy to take a gap year from the event. He simply has to keep going at it to grab at least another couple of maillot jaunes before bad luck, age, or stiffer competition start to become an obstacle.
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coffeejo
Ælfrēd
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I think he'd probably swap the lot for one TdF win.
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smutchin
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Yeah, but not just for their Tour wins. Even if Froome does go on to win five, he'll still be a long way from matching Merckx and Hinault. I don't want to sound like I'm doing down his achievements, because winning three Tours is incredible, but he's some way from becoming one of the true greats of the sport.
He has shown another side to his racing this year - the escape with Sagan and the downhill attack are signs that he is growing in confidence and self-belief, and that he has more natural racing instinct than perhaps he has been given credit for in the past. I'd like to see him turn that into a more diverse palmarès.
Will be really interesting to see how he goes in the Vuelta. I think it's plausible that he could win it. Seven summit finishes, which might suit Quintana or Chaves better, but also a 39km flat time trial...
Think I'll put some dosh on Zakarin at 18/1 ...
Got to be the tour for Froome as the main focus, I'd have thought that Sky would use the others (especially the Giro) as carrots for the other strong riders Nieve, Henao, ...
Thought he'd been ruled out for previuosly testing positive? Must admit, I've lost the plot a bit with who's in and out, who's appealing ...
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smutchin
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PCS have a start list but I have no idea how accurate it is: http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=170667&c=3
KneesUp
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I agree. I know it's a different sport these days and so on, but it seems to me that Indurain is nowhere near as highly thought of as the other five times winners, Hinault and Merckx. Even his nickname isn't as good. I put this down to Indurain 'only' winning 5 TdFs and 2 Giros.
Hinault, on the other hand, has won five TdFs, including all the individual jerseys, 3 Giros, 2 Vueltas, 1 World Championship Road Race, Liege-Bastogne-Liege twice and loads of others. Like Merckx, he did a lot of this after serious injury (Hinault to his knee, Merckx to his hip). Merckx's record makes even Hinault's look a bit patchy, of course. I think also it's about how they rode - Indurain took time in time trials and then generally maintained that lead in the other stages. Hinault seemed to be looking to take time every stage he rode, which was much more exciting. I never same Merckx ride, but I gather he was the same, only more so.
