Chris Froome leaves for discovery of the unknown in the 109 Tour de France by bicycle, with the four-time champion assuring that this Thursday he was finally free of injuries from the serious fall he suffered three years ago.
“I come to a bit of a discovery. I will do my best to help the team and if it means going in search of a stage win, I will try to do it,” said the Israel-Premier Tech veteran.
For someone who has been four times Tour champion (2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017), once runner-up (2012) and third (2018), won seven stages and the mountain jersey (2015), the goals seem too modest. , but the 37-year-old Kenyan-born Briton is aware that the fall he suffered during the reconnaissance of the Dauphiné Criterion time trial in June 2019 changed your destiny
“It is a great achievement to be racing again after that terrible accident. Only in the last few months, during the preparation for the Tour, did I feel free of all problems, ”he declared, at a press conference.
Froome says he is “can’t wait to enjoy every opportunity and see how far the legs go in the next three weeks”.
“During the last 12 months, I have not overcome obstacles badly.but I have the impression that, from January to now, I am on an upward trajectory”, he admitted, noting that he wants to go “day by day” and that the true test of his physical condition will come in the mountains.
After the serious fall in the Dauphiné, in which the femur, the right elbow and several ribs were fractured, Froome he never again showed the quality he displayed for eight years in the pelotonbeing the best runner of his generation.
In addition to the victories in the Tour, won two Vuelta a España (2011 and 2017) and a twist (2018), being one of the seven cyclists in history to win all three Grand Tours and one of the two is still active (the other is Vincenzo Nibali, who says goodbye to the peloton at the end of the season).
The 109 Tour de France starts on Friday in Copenhagen, Denmark, and ends on July 24 in Paris, where the successor of the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, winner of the last two editions, will win.
Source: Observadora
