Right, to try and help all of you who can’t understand why some people don’t like Froome and why they question him.
1. He showed no real promise until the veulta in ’11 when he got selected only because someone else dropped out of the squad (Froome was coming to the end of contract and was going to be let go) then, boom, he’s 2nd and could even have won if ‘let off the leash’ earlier. So zero to hero. Under contract renewal… Now, we’ve seen this before….
2. Balharzia, a weird blood disease that nobody has ever heard of before (and I can’t even spell, 😉 ) that’s supposed to explain it all away. But would just so happen to explain away any blood irregularities, my, how convenient. And it wasn’t discovered by doctors as such, it took Froome to request a test for it….
3. He’s put in some serious ‘out there’ performances reminiscent of some of the good old days (i.e. doped rider days) that have had some people say are impossible clean (hence the alien w/kg claims). Seeing sky ride tempo all day at the front of a mountain stage, having domestiques beating the other teams best climbers of the day before Froome attacks off the front and everybody else is either ‘tired’ or having a bad day. Yet his official w/kg is less than people he beat by over a minute… ETA: by his own admission he’s beaten Armstrongs best time on the Madone…. 😯
4. He looks god awful on a bike. Yet he’s supposed to be the most efficient?
For some of us it just doesn’t add up, and using Occam’s razor, the simplest answer is? He must be doping. It’s been the answer virtually every time before, what has changed to make it untrue this time?
PS he’s not even English.
5. I just don’t like the guy. It’s irrational and has no basis but I just dislike him.
Now just accept some people don’t like your guy (the same way you probably dislike ‘dirty’ Bertie, etc) and not get butt hurt about it.