Starting with a good joke (well, this is actual news, but it's more of a joke I think )
Froome is nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
I hear he'll be sending his stem to collect the award, since that's about 75% of his personality
Also is 2015 already almost over? I'm only now writing 2015 instead of 2014
Ian Butler wrote:
Starting with a good joke (well, this is actual news, but it's more of a joke I think )
Froome is nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
I hear he'll be sending his stem to collect the award, since that's about 75% of his personality
Ian Butler wrote:
Starting with a good joke (well, this is actual news, but it's more of a joke I think )
Froome is nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
I hear he'll be sending his stem to collect the award, since that's about 75% of his personality
Ian Butler wrote:
Starting with a good joke (well, this is actual news, but it's more of a joke I think )
Froome is nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
I hear he'll be sending his stem to collect the award, since that's about 75% of his personality
Too be fair he has just as much personality as most of the people on the list.
In terms of the Sports Personality I don't think he really has a chance, which is a shame because you don't get a double British TdF winner every year. I think Froome's achievements in cycling have been slightly blighted by Wiggins winning the TdF the year before. It's almost not seen as that great an achievement any more in Britain given Cavendish's recent dominance in sprints and British winners in 3 of the last 4 editions.
Apparently Ennis-Hill is the slight favourite which would be a turn up for the books for an athlete to win in a non Olympic year. She has done well to come back from pregnancy to World Champion in 2 years.
in the techinical staff of Lotto-Jumbo NL there isn't any more room for Ken Vanmarcke (brother of the classics-specialist Sep Vanmarcke). he in addition to Erik Dekker wasn't given an contract for 2016. Vanmarcke works next year next to Michiel Elijzen at SEG Racing
in the techinical staff of Lotto-Jumbo NL there isn't any more room for Ken Vanmarcke (brother of the classics-specialist Sep Vanmarcke). he in addition to Erik Dekker wasn't given an contract for 2016. Vanmarcke works next year next to Michiel Elijzen at SEG Racing
Nice trick, I actually thought WTF where's Sep Vanmarcke going.
So Froome's test results from 2007 and 2015 are public
A few thoughts
a) The values now and in 2007 are very similar. Yet his performances are those of two vastly different people
b) He stated repeatedly, including to Kimmage, that he weighed 70-71kg then, but the test results say 76.
c) His FTP now is the same as in 2007. Either that's a lie, or Sky's all singing all dancing ultra high tech training hasn't made the slightest difference to the threshold power of a 22 year old african without access to modern training methods. I find that hard to believe
All in all the usual lack of coherence or consistency that we've come to associate with anything Sky.
a) The values now and in 2007 are very similar. Yet his performances are those of two vastly different people
b) He stated repeatedly, including to Kimmage, that he weighed 70-71kg then, but the test results say 76.
c) His FTP now is the same as in 2007. Either that's a lie, or Sky's all singing all dancing ultra high tech training hasn't made the slightest difference to the threshold power of a 22 year old african without access to modern training methods. I find that hard to believe
All in all the usual lack of coherence or consistency that we've come to associate with anything Sky.
I'm sure if you and all of your obvious expertise can conclude that Froome has cheated from the data that has been released then the Sky experts would also have been able to deduce the same and so wouldn't have released the results.
Which means either Sky are idiots for releasing data that obviously incriminates Froome, or you are just talking rubbish.
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