At the end were all fears nothing. There were no sporting things, about which Christopher Froome had done so his thoughts publicly before the penultimate stage of the Tour de France. Although it up to Alpe d’Huez was again hard for the man in yellow.
The 110 km “felt like 300,” said he. “I had to suffer today.” Also because Nairo Quintana, the second overall, neatly caught up time. When victory of Thibaut Pinot he made 80 seconds on Froome well. But the Britons spend more than a minute advantage in the overall standings. For his second Tour victory he has only come to Paris on Sunday – attacks he needs traditionally on the final section is no longer to be feared
But what Froome. Umtrieb on Saturday was a less appetizing affair. He hoped he had said before the stage start, to public enthusiasm on the infamous Alpine passage, without any excesses. Froome had some unpleasant experiences in the past few days. On Saturday but it remained largely calm.
faced a few boos for him, but no physical attacks. Daily with doping suspicions
There are probably not many Tour winner, which in France less sympathies are met with as Froome. Thank the triumphal procession of the 30-year old British seem too suspicious. Doping with conventional substances in microdosing, performance increase with funds from the bodybuilding that are not yet on the doping list, or even an electric motor, with such suspicions Froome will now face every day.
They reveal once again that cycling has not yet shaken off the long past. That doubt always mitfährt, especially when someone like Froome seemingly mastered the tough mountain stages in the Pyrenees will.
This general suspicion was a pity, said John Degenkolb, the German team from Giant-Alpecin. On the other hand, he also confessed he catch himself, that he had a strange feeling when he miterlebe such top performances live. He critically questioning. But Froome had let himself be so far nothing guilty. “You should give him so confidence.”
disgusting urine cups litter, disgusting spitting attack
The conflict situation in the three but tour-weeks was another. “We go every day through a kind soccer Mob” Sky team principal Dave Brailsford said. There were all kinds of major and minor attacks on his team and Froome. The disgusting urine cups litter last Saturday, the equally disgusting spitting attack two days ago, both flanked with rants. Froome was a doper, something like this was the wording. The team has been set aside even police. The team bosses had reported full Coke cans that flew against the motorcade.
Now this intolerable Fan attacks are one thing. And it also has something almost tragic-comic that provide precisely the largest proven doper like Lance Armstrong publicly to the top of Froome-doubters. Froome, his Australian team-mate Richie Porte and the Sky team are clearly very strong, Armstrong had tweeted a few days ago. “Too strong to be clean?” He pushed by. “Do not ask me.”
Just Laurent Jalabert, the former world champion who is now the co-commentator for French television. Follow-tour-sample of 1998 led him once the EPO doping, he had always denied. When he Froomes commented legendary ease on the Pyrenees stages, he said, the presence of the British was “to look uncomfortable.”
Wide skeptical than the PR-pregnant objections of convicted sinners but agree the statements of some scientists who baffled whether to give the reached wattages of Froome. His values are comparable with those from the Armstrong era, the French sports physiologist Pierre Sallet reckoned recently before. The outcry was great. Sky responded and ordered on Tuesday Froomes coach Tim Kerrison podium.
Created for cycling
From because wattages as Armstrong-hours, lectured Kerrison. He laid open all the possible numbers. Average 5.78 watts per kilogram have Froome achieved at his show in the Pyrenees to La Pierre-Saint-Martin – a far cry from those analyzed seven watts of Sallet. And anyway, Froome was just perfect for cycling. 1.86 meters tall, not even 70 kg heavy. For this purpose, a lung volume of eight liters.
That has born in Kenya Froome exceptional facilities, is nothing new. Even at the Tour 2012, when he helped Bradley Wiggins for overall victory, he caused a stir. A year later he triumphed itself. And now Tour victory number two.
The doping issue says Froome, “is the legacy of our predecessors”. But times had changed. “It is no longer the Wild West as it was ten or 15 years ago. There are probably even drivers who take the risk, but that’s the minority.” The only question is, who believes him?
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