Chris Froome has lost the Tour de France

And poor Chris got booed again..."very unsporting" according to a certain announcer.

Yes, Froome goes to Paris DEVASTATED. A victim of his own ambition perhaps? Giro and TdF in one season.

Roglic must be licking his lips. I wonder if in ways Froome would rather come 4th than have to stand on the 3rd tier of the final podium. Then he can just slink away.

I love the third week of the TDF.

Support guy who rages in the mountains is clearly a world-beater. Until Landa proves he's not.

Guy who dropped out early with injury would have killed everyone. Then you remember Porte will always crash out.

I want to think the near future has a great yellow jersey battle between Roglic and Bernal, and/or that Bernal will be the Columbian to finally win the tour. Then I remember it's always the next day, or the next year, or the guy who crashed out, or the guy who's three minutes down thanks to mechanicals and a foolish crash that will make the tour not totally sux.

Face it. The Vuelta is the only decent tour, because it's essentially today's crazy mountain stage every single day. Otherwise, stick with one-day classics, and cyclocross season. The TDF is a snoozer.

Vuelta...right. The Giro is by far the best race. Half of the best riders don't even ride the Vuelta because they are beat up from the first 5 months of the season.

Froome hasn't lost anything.

They've just played their hand carefully and all things considered - following Froome's laughable Giro breakaway, coming pre bizarre doping case dropping - decided to step back from the limelight slightly for this one. Sky's still a winner though so everyone's happy yeah?

Smell The Coffee wrote:

Froome hasn't lost anything.

They've just played their hand carefully and all things considered - following Froome's laughable Giro breakaway, coming pre bizarre doping case dropping - decided to step back from the limelight slightly for this one. Sky's still a winner though so everyone's happy yeah?

He could easily do another Landis as George Bennett said in the Giro.

Not a fan of Chris Froome wrote:

Yes, Froome goes to Paris DEVASTATED. A victim of his own ambition perhaps? Giro and TdF in one season.

Ya, he sucks. Only won The Tour 4 times and might finish 3rd or 4th this year.

Maybe winning the Giro wore him down, but it may have been worth it to take on a new challenge and win something else.

Sky did not want to bad publicity you having Froome win. They knew that he was going to get booed on the podium in Paris. How would the sponsors feel?

Froome is probably doing this tour cleanly (partially at least). We saw him struggle today.

Sky had another leader in the wings to take the tour.

My guess is that Sky will ask Froome to lose a few more minutes so that he does not step on the podium.

Anyone else hear G's comments that he would rather win and be booed than get dropped and finish 30th? Seems like an admission of PED use to me.

SkyHigh wrote:

Anyone else hear G's comments that he would rather win and be booed than get dropped and finish 30th? Seems like an admission of PED use to me.

It's not really though, is it?

Would you rather win and be booed or finish 30th and have people not care?

SkyHigh wrote:

Anyone else hear G's comments that he would rather win and be booed than get dropped and finish 30th? Seems like an admission of PED use to me.

How in the world is that an admission of PED use? Wut!!?

I would not count him out just yet. He always has had 1 bad day, just that this year he was behind already. If he was a good last mountain stage and gains some time back (very possible look at this year's Giro) and the kills the TT on Sat he can still win. Whether he wants to do that to a teammate and someone who has helped him win 4 titles is another story

Was there wrote:

I would not count him out just yet. He always has had 1 bad day, just that this year he was behind already. If he was a good last mountain stage and gains some time back (very possible look at this year's Giro) and the kills the TT on Sat he can still win. Whether he wants to do that to a teammate and someone who has helped him win 4 titles is another story

That's the problem; even if he could launch a long distance attack, he won't because it would jeopardize the yellow jersey. How stupid would it look if he goes, G cracks, and Dumoulin wins the tour because of that.

Can't we just acknowledge that all of them use PEDs and move on. Still very fun to watch.

Tour champion decided with Thomas's win yesterday.

Does Sky TV also broadcast the TdF? If so, why are they allowed to sponsor a team? That's like having the Arizona ABC's playing on Monday Night Football.

Seems he had a choice to either use PED's and win (hence the booing and implications of foul play) or not use PED's and get dropped. He is winning, so appears he made the choice to use PED's, like Froome, get booed, and win.

Ca$hclay wrote:

Can't we just acknowledge that all of them use PEDs and move on. Still very fun to watch.

Tour champion decided with Thomas's win yesterday.

And letting them use motors but still limiting bike weights.

Was talking to a former Tour rider as we were discussing the facade that is Froome - he is that nerdy distance runner that has limited talent, but puts in 140 mile week. He's that kid that has ZERO kick, no athleticism, with a tremendously limited ceiling.

He was exposed this year without his full doping cocktail. He's damn boring on a bike, can't accelerate with anyone, and only wins because he has all the resources around him like Bernal sitting back and baby-sitting his @ss.

He is nowhere among the greats. Just not talented enough. I'm glad he got exposed for the mediocrely "good" rider he is.. his teammates proved it right, the best line from the book, "if I was given all the resources of Froome, I'd win 3-4 TdF as well."

SkyHigh wrote:

Seems he had a choice to either use PED's and win (hence the booing and implications of foul play) or not use PED's and get dropped. He is winning, so appears he made the choice to use PED's, like Froome, get booed, and win.

Or he was comparing the current situation with a hypothetical one where he just sucks and prefers the one that everyone that doesn't have your loser mentality would also choose.