Swahili-speaking Froome was born and bred in Kenya - was not even considered good enough for the crap Kenyan cycling team for the 2006 Commonwealths. By his own admission, Froome hacked a top Kenyan official's email account to get eventually included in the team. He distinguished himself by comically riding straight in to a race official within a few hundred yards of the start of the time trial event.
Froome became a British citizen around 2008, but has never lived in Britain - preferring to reside as a tax exile in Monaco instead as a citizen of his adopted nation.
Froome was a failed second-rate domestique water-carrier for the stars of the (bent/zero-transparency/jiffy-bags/dodgy doctors/coverrups) Sky cycling team up until Sky wanted him to leave, in 2011. He had no aptitude for climbing hills whatsoever, and was seen zig-zagging like a noob up urban high streets with any incline. Suddenly, when Froome's Sky contract was about to expire in 2011 and no other teams were willing to take him - one of Sky's first-choice domestiques had to drop out of the Tour of Spain and so Froome was asked to start the race. With the likely end of his professional cycling career, Froome astonishingly transformed from mule to thoroughbred. Since then, he has outshone all doping megastars (even Lance) by his incredible climbing ability.
How?
Many speculated that it was the arrival of Sky's doping supremo, Dr Geert Leinders who transformed Wiggins and Froome's abilities. The good doctor was subsequently banned from Cycling for life, for team-wide doping activities.