Chris Froome: "I'd like to do one last Grand Tour"

Rome, 11 November 2024 - Just in the days when cycling is metabolising the decision of Mark Cavendish to retreat, the peer Chris Froome he doesn't give up, ready to return to the group in 2025 as a 40-year-old. And, possibly, to do it to give himself at least one last chance in a Great Tour.  

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"In a perfect world, I would love to go back to the Tour de France or in any case in a Great Tour: I haven't decided yet whether the next one will be my last season, but clearly the further we go the more likely it is that it will be so": these are the words of the Kenyan-British released on the sidelines of the Singapore Criterium 2024, won by the 'celebrated' himself Cavendish. "I'm realistic about my level, but I think I could play an important role in Tour de France for the younger riders, especially those who want to aim for the general classification: I'm thinking of ours Derek Gee". Froome He also enjoys acting almost as his own sports director, with the hope of stimulating the imagination of his Israel Premier Tech, which however for the latest editions of the Great Boucle he had other ideas: how to cut out those who won that race 4 times higher, but it still clashes with a pretty big regret. "When I fell, in the 2019, I felt much stronger than when I won the Tour de France. I couldn't wait to run that time trial, because everything started from there, but unfortunately life is also this and you have to accept it". Finally, a comment on current cycling, which is liked but not by everyone. "Today we have less fun and everything has changed a lot compared to the last 5 years. My judgment is perhaps also tainted by the fact that I can't win, because when you do it everything seems fantastic, while when you suffer everything is harder."

The Future of Lotte Kopecky

  Moving on to women's cycling, the career of Lotte Kopeky, 29 years old since yesterday and arrived, perhaps, at a turning point. The feeling had already been there in 2023, with second place in Tour de France Women behind Demi Vollering: in 2024, Giro d'Italia Women, the same square arrived behind an extraordinary Elisa Longo Borghini. In the mind of the Belgian, a champion on the track and in one-day races, the wonderful thought is therefore flashing of starting to take more care of the rankings of the Grand Tours to give himself a second part of his career that is totally opposite to the first. Apparently, net of the well-deserved holidays, Kopecky is already working on this metamorphosis which is not even that remote in women's cycling where hierarchies are often written more by the road than by the team cars: a trend that some people like, while to others it smacks of chaos and tactical anarchy, with Patrick Lefebvre e Tom Boonen to act as spokesperson for this (debated and questionable) point of view.

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