Generation game

Heading into his final year, how would peak Chris Froome stack up against the greats that came later?

Ned Boulting

I’ve just spent half an hour with Chris Froome. I hadn’t seen him for years; five to be exact. The last time we sat down to chat, he was six months into his recovery from the terrible accident that ended his winning ways and might have ended his life. He was buckled, but defiant. That was January 2020, just before the pandemic shut down the world. And just before Tadej Pogačar shut the door on Froome’s generation. All of them – Froome, Thomas, Contador, Dumoulin, Quintana, even Roglič. There were two things that Froome, the winner of a staggering seven Grand Tours, could never have anticipated. One was that gust of wind that took his disc wheel and planted him against a wall so hard there was barely a bone…

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Cycling Plus (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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