Is Chris Froome LYING About Bike Issues?

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Next we have an update on the Chris FR bike position story which we covered last week maybe two weeks ago if you missed it Chris FR recently discovered that his bike position on his team Factor bike was off by 3 cm a couple of Pros have since called him out as

Talking crap and making excuses for poor performances this week his team boss even questioned The credibility of his claims Silvan Adams uh is in charge of his team and said does it sound log I that someone who won seven grand Tours is claiming that his saddle position is

Off by a centimeter or whatever he’s saying does it sound credible for a guy who’s getting dropped not even on the last climbs of races but on the early climbs of races he also said we’ve been very generous with Chris in terms of trying to help him trying to give him

The best possible equipment the best possible conditions he can talk about his bike position until the cows come home that’s still not going to earn him a position on a grand tour team Savage this is the guy he’s not um he’s not the DS of the team he’s the money

Behind the team so I don’t know how involved he is how often he actually interacts with the with the riders that is pretty nasty yeah that’s very rude uh presumably from his point of view he’s going I’ve spent a lot of money where’s my return um which I guess happens to a

Lot of sports people it’s it’s you know I get what’s unique I guess about sports teams is that it’s not like working in just like a normal job even if you’re really highly paid because there’s like HR and stuff whereas in sports it seems people just you go like oh this person’s

Not performance so just sack him get rid of them yeah and that seems Bonkers doesn’t it well you know you know someone’s not performing they’re not performing but it doesn’t feel appropriate just to go boot them out see you later not interested in you anymore

So we had an email after we talked about Chris room a week or two weeks ago I still can’t remember uh from a guy called Ari who is actually friends with Chris FR and Emily did some digging to to confirm that he actually is friends

Friends of Chris F and he is and Ari said he was with FR when he discover discovered the position was off and he was pretty upset of some of the comments made in the media this week he wrote I’ve watched a couple of videos this is the actual email I’ve watched a couple

Of videos around this story and it hurts it hurts because I’m close to Chris and I was also with him when he real ized that there was a serious discrepancy between his new bike and his old pinell I I just want to add at this point I

What that says to me is Chris FR must have just had complete confidence that what he was given was correct so he didn’t even think to like question it or query it he’s just gone well these are professionals cool there’s my bike excellent they know what they’re doing

As you would if you were if you joined the pro yeah like if I would somehow ended up on a pro team I would assume the bike they’d give me would be correct well you’re going to next season aren’t you with all your blood doping he says I

Really enjoyed your podcast as you actually discuss the topic and question not just him but his team his mechanics and the World Tour cycling issues related to bike fitting it’s a thing although it may almost sound unbelievable and very unprofessional this did actually happen and that he took the correct measurements to correct

His position only a couple of days after realizing that many of these Sports podcasts out there find it easy to look down on him unfortunately the story is legit let’s now hope Chris proves people wrong in the coming season I hope so too I’ll be honest I don’t think it matters

If he proves people wrong or not realistically he’s in the Twilight of his career he’s identified some issues and he’s tried to rectify them and that’s what people should and do do so um it seems that he’s just in this really awkward position doesn’t it he’s

Being one of the the best cyclists in the world he’s ended up in a different team he isn’t performing as well as he had has done previously for whatever reason it doesn’t matter and people are struggling to deal with that I think the reason does matter the crash is the was

The big moment that really messed him up I forgot he it took ages to and like a serious crash it’s a serious crash broken bones and not only is that physical thing that’s a mental thing as well like it it stops you from being as

Confident and in a race a tiny tiny lack of confidence can then be magnified by you know if you miss a move or you hesitate and don’t go with a move because of some something that’s happening on the road which seems a bit sketch and you miss it and then that

Suddenly becomes a hours time Gap so I can see why these these things happen that is a very good point I I do distinctly remember so I I had a a nasty crash where my chain came off on a single speed and I like I I basically couldn’t walk properly for about three

Or 4 weeks and then I started riding bikes again and I had this paranoia about being out of the saddle for about 18 months I couldn’t Sprint out of the saddle which do you think your Chain’s going to snap CU I was like well if I’m in my saddle and my

Chain snaps and my chain comes off it doesn’t matter I’m in the saddle um if I was a professional racer that would be me done yeah yeah that would have been that would have been game over uh so that yeah that must have a huge huge impact on you know especially when you

Get into the you’ve proved a lot you’ve achieved as much as you possibly can achieve in in in the sport at the top level and then you go well maybe you just you know you lose you lose your head that’s it losing your head I want

Him to do well purely from my own interactions with him I met him outside a cafe in Ripley where it is 2012 must have been 2012 Olympics uh and he was there with like uh Bernie isil Mark Cavendish and they were the nicest very accommodating to fans I was like 17 and

Like proper handshake and they really took the time and Chris rooms rate was super nice in my one interaction with him I actually don’t care if he does well or doesn’t do well what I think is important is that people stop thinking they have the right to tell someone that they’re crap

Because they’re not doing as well as they have done previously when what you’ve done previously is been the best in the world yeah it’s weird isn’t it but but even if it isn’t the best in the world you you like it doesn’t matter if he’s doing amazing or not doing amazing

Now if he wants to ride at the highest level and someone wants to give him a ride then cool you know like leave him alone and I think this doesn’t just apply app apply to Chris room it’s it’s across the board we don’t have the right to tell people that they are just

Because we think they are and it is one of the problems with social media and why we don’t read comments it’s true if I can add to that Jimmy you said about his his crash because he basically had back pain and that’s what ultimately led

Him to realize that his fit was off but if you’ve had you know he was in intensive care with this crash if he’s then had problems getting back on the bike he might have thought that the pain he was suffering was a result of the injury rather than discrepancies with

His bike I also actually spoke to HRI this morning and another thing that he said was that FR took his team Sky mechanic from Team sky over to his new team and that was kind of his dedicated mechanic and you know you made it when you could do that it’s like Mark

Cavendish taking his uh his Oakley sponsorship with him wherever he goes I’m not going to wear the same glasses as his team sorry and not that I don’t think he’s blaming the mechanic at all but I think what you said Jimmy in the fact that he ultimately it was just

Assumed that someone had dealt with the position thing and ultimately everyone felt a bit embarrassed by the time they realized but hry was saying he was actually with him when it was sort of discovered and um he asked Chris if he was going to make it public about the

Fact that this had happened and he kind of at the time suggested that he might just keep it quiet um but obviously he’s decided not to for whatever reason but I mean maybe the guy just felt happy that you know he’d had a lord of back pain

And then suddenly felt better yeah but omry was a very nice guy and he was very um upset that everyone was being nasty to his M Chris room so we asked HRI to ask Chris if he’ll come and join us on the podcast as well didn’t we I did ask

That yes stay tuned next week special guest Chris room Chris room he did ask where we were based and I said um Newcastle UK and he said oh well Chris isn’t around there he knows him from the south of France I was like well it’s not

Quite the south of France but great time of year to visit here yeah exactly so yeah Chris room obviously you know you’re going to listen to this because it’s the 42nd biggest Sports podcast on Spotify so uh we look forward to seeing you on the show soon