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Cycling: Christopher Froome, 10 years of ups and downs

2020-07-10T07:37:21.042Z


The British champion will join the new Israel Start-Up Nation at the end of the season, after ten years with Sky, has become


Christopher Froome will compete in the next Tour de France for the last time in the colors of Ineos. After the heyday of the British team (ex-Sky) since 2010, "Froomy" has decided to turn the page and will start a new chapter in his career next season by joining the Israel Start-Up Nation team. Retrospective.

Tour de France 2012: the affront to its leader Wiggins

Supposed to support its leader Bradley Wiggins, Froome unclips him on the Toussuire stage, with his characteristic pedal stroke, and head bowed. A behavior which leads the Sky team, via the atrium, to stop its runner to wait for Wiggins, finally victorious in Paris. Disgusted by this betrayal, "Wiggo" had almost slammed the door of the team as will later report the sports director of the Sky Sean Yates in his autobiography: "He had sent me an SMS which said: I think he would be better for everyone if I go home. "

Four Tour de France on the clock

With Sky then Ineos, the “Kenyan White” won the Great Loop four times in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. The first two times, Froome did not hesitate to attack from the mountain stages (Ax-3 Domaines en 2013 and Pierre-Saint-Martin in 2015) to knock out his opponents. A tactic that he will evolve during his two other successes, drawing more on the collective strength of his team, like a certain Lance Armstrong before him.

2016: the Giant of Provence on foot

The image has marked the 2016 Tour and more broadly the history of the Grand Boucle. Christopher Froome, yellow jersey on the back and on foot, in the Montée du Ventoux during the twelfth stage. The Briton broke his bike by hitting a motorbike and panicked 1.5 km from the finish line drawn up at Chalet Reynard.

After running a few meters, he gets a makeshift bike. But the Briton wastes time and hands over the leader's tunic to Adam Yates. Before the Tour jury finally decides to freeze the classification at the time of the Froome incident. Still in yellow, he will win a third Tour in Paris.

2019: eight months off

Christopher Froome, who was aiming for a fifth Tour de France in 2019 to join Hinault, Indurain, Anquetil and Merckx, was stopped dead on June 12 by falling heavily during the recognition of a stage in Dauphiné. Less than a month before the launch of the Great Loop, the Briton remains on the ground with multiple fractures: ribs, femur, elbow, sternum, vertebra, he also loses two liters of blood. The Briton forfeits the Tour. Eight months of rehabilitation follow. It will finally make its big return to the UAE Tour at the end of February, shortened by the detection of cases from Covid-19.

Suspected of doping

The Briton's career has been marred by suspicions of doping. In 2017, the rider tested positive for Salbutamol after the 18th stage of the Tour of Spain. Froome then evokes asthma attacks in order to justify taking this product. Barely five days before the start of the 2018 Tour de France, "Froomy" is cleared by the UCI.

Source: leparis

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