How good is Chris Froome?

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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Meanwhile in the clinic
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Meanwhile in the clinic

    I need to know how you make these!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    M.R.M. wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    I just put in a big effort this evening.
    Burger and chips. Scoffed it in about ten minutes, which is an incredible power input.
    You need to get on a proper training regimen. If you want to take the step up to WT you can't avoid having to do intervals, so that would require further burgers and chips every 10 minutes. Otherwise we can only ever use you on Pan flat days or the odd focaccia maybe.

    I think I'm best suited to the cobbled classics. I can churn in the power all day long.

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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Above The Cows wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Meanwhile in the clinic

    I need to know how you make these!
    Let me google that for you:
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    bompington wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Meanwhile in the clinic

    I need to know how you make these!
    Let me google that for you:

    Thank you
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    No tA Doctor wrote:
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    Correlation is not causation.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Above The Cows wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
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    Love that your signature line is directly below that gif - "Correlation is not causation"
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ^HA!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Today's episode of Pointless delivered it's verdict

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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    what was the question?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    what was the question?
    Identify one of the 16 pictured British sports people who were born outside Britain.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    M.R.M. wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    I just put in a big effort this evening.
    Burger and chips. Scoffed it in about ten minutes, which is an incredible power input.
    You need to get on a proper training regimen. If you want to take the step up to WT you can't avoid having to do intervals, so that would require further burgers and chips every 10 minutes. Otherwise we can only ever use you on Pan flat days or the odd focaccia maybe.

    I think I'm best suited to the cobbled classics. I can churn in the power all day long.

    DX7bYATWsAAg8NG.jpg:large

    It looks like Jan the man's GT build up diet, nice. Team Sci-fi protagonists would be eating fooking quinoa!
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    FocusZing wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    M.R.M. wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    I just put in a big effort this evening.
    Burger and chips. Scoffed it in about ten minutes, which is an incredible power input.
    You need to get on a proper training regimen. If you want to take the step up to WT you can't avoid having to do intervals, so that would require further burgers and chips every 10 minutes. Otherwise we can only ever use you on Pan flat days or the odd focaccia maybe.

    I think I'm best suited to the cobbled classics. I can churn in the power all day long.

    DX7bYATWsAAg8NG.jpg:large

    It looks like Jan the man's GT build up diet, nice. Team Sci-fi protagonists would be eating fooking quinoa!

    There is so much going on in that pic it deserves it’s own thread.
    It’s a shrine to Belgium. Even the cables under the telly, somehow.
    And I for one will become a disciple because I have faith that Belgium actually exists.
    Yes, everything consumable in the photo is essentially brown - except the token green side salad (olives) - and not really going to do much to help one’s life expectancy beyond the national average for your gender in the country you live in... but, my Belgium, what a way to go!
    I hope I live my life as though I’m in a break with 133km to go and I’ve got 9’12” on the bunch... and I genuinely think I’m going to make it.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,891
    sky's view of that stage

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44372328
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Very interesting article.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    FocusZing wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    M.R.M. wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    I just put in a big effort this evening.
    Burger and chips. Scoffed it in about ten minutes, which is an incredible power input.
    You need to get on a proper training regimen. If you want to take the step up to WT you can't avoid having to do intervals, so that would require further burgers and chips every 10 minutes. Otherwise we can only ever use you on Pan flat days or the odd focaccia maybe.

    I think I'm best suited to the cobbled classics. I can churn in the power all day long.

    DX7bYATWsAAg8NG.jpg:large

    It looks like Jan the man's GT build up diet, nice. Team Sci-fi protagonists would be eating fooking quinoa!

    There is so much going on in that pic it deserves it’s own thread.
    It’s a shrine to Belgium. Even the cables under the telly, somehow.
    And I for one will become a disciple because I have faith that Belgium actually exists.
    Yes, everything consumable in the photo is essentially brown - except the token green side salad (olives) - and not really going to do much to help one’s life expectancy beyond the national average for your gender in the country you live in... but, my Belgium, what a way to go!
    I hope I live my life as though I’m in a break with 133km to go and I’ve got 9’12” on the bunch... and I genuinely think I’m going to make it.

    Come for the discussion about Kenyan born Chris Froome, stay for the dadaist analysis.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • milemuncher1
    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
    TheBigBean wrote:
    sky's view of that stage

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44372328
    D.B wrote:
    "We told Rod the plan. Any chance? His face dropped.

    "He came back. 'We can do it, but we're going to need everybody in the team - press officers, mechanics, security guy, me. That's the only way it can work.' Then we thought, some of these guys have never given a bottle to a moving rider before. So we would have to move around.

    "Rod did the logistics of that. James worked out what Chris should eat, when and where. Tim did the calculations about energy expenditure and where. And then we got the riders together and said, this is what we're going to try to do."

    “His face dropped” I bet it bloody did :lol:
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    TheBigBean wrote:
    sky's view of that stage

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44372328

    "We had reconnoitred the Finestre by mistake"

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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    sky's view of that stage

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44372328

    "We had reconnoitred the Finestre by mistake"

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    Yes I loved that. Who the f*ck just happens to end up on a climb like that by mistake?

    Here's Kerrison on the Finestre...

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    Correlation is not causation.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    After a slow start this thread has turned out some quality posts
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    After a slow start this thread has turned out some quality posts

    Negative splits.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    After a slow start this thread has turned out some quality posts

    A bit like Froome's career.

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    Correlation is not causation.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    After a slow start this thread has turned out some quality posts

    Negative splits.

    Applause!
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    There is so much going on in that pic it deserves it’s own thread.
    It’s a shrine to Belgium. Even the cables under the telly, somehow.
    And I for one will become a disciple because I have faith that Belgium actually exists.
    Yes, everything consumable in the photo is essentially brown - except the token green side salad (olives) - and not really going to do much to help one’s life expectancy beyond the national average for your gender in the country you live in... but, my Belgium, what a way to go!
    I hope I live my life as though I’m in a break with 133km to go and I’ve got 9’12” on the bunch... and I genuinely think I’m going to make it.

    You can do it! Here's the finish line - you can see attention has been paid to proper hydration.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    There's like a mass grave of olives on that plate.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Bo Duke
    Bo Duke Posts: 1,058
    Sadly George Bennett will be forever associated with his stupid remark on camera and will regret it for many a long year.

    The key comment from that excellent Sky interview is they planned to isolate the GT contenders from their domestiques by the bottom of the Finestre. We know Froome has the ability and mental strength to handle being out alone but TD clearly 'needed' a man to help him cope with the pressure. It's also a slap from one GT man to another that CF refused to consider riding with TD but wanted to crush him. How many other team leaders would have plummed for that?
    'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP
  • joey54321
    joey54321 Posts: 1,297
    Bo Duke wrote:
    Sadly George Bennett will be forever associated with his stupid remark on camera and will regret it for many a long year.

    The key comment from that excellent Sky interview is they planned to isolate the GT contenders from their domestiques by the bottom of the Finestre. We know Froome has the ability and mental strength to handle being out alone but TD clearly 'needed' a man to help him cope with the pressure. It's also a slap from one GT man to another that CF refused to consider riding with TD but wanted to crush him. How many other team leaders would have plummed for that?

    I think most people have already forgotten Bennett made it, and he himself no longer gives any consideration to it.

    Also, most other GC leaders, these guys are intensely competitive, if they can beat each other they will.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Bo Duke wrote:
    Sadly George Bennett will be forever associated with his stupid remark on camera and will regret it for many a long year.

    Only by morons, in fairness.
    _
  • Bo Duke
    Bo Duke Posts: 1,058
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bo Duke wrote:
    Sadly George Bennett will be forever associated with his stupid remark on camera and will regret it for many a long year.

    Only by morons, in fairness.
    The same morons that have accused him relentlessly of doping on this forum or have those people also long forgotten their glib comments?
    'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP
  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,784
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bo Duke wrote:
    Sadly George Bennett will be forever associated with his stupid remark on camera and will regret it for many a long year.

    Only by morons, in fairness.

    Clinic are all over it :D
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