Chris Froome's Secret World of Climbing

BeSpoke: at the Tour de France

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4.5 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Ahead of this year's Tour de France, the three-time champion Chris Froome takes us inside the peloton as he talks about the tactics, the psychology, the pain, the rivalry, and the close encounters with fans during the famous mountain stages.

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0:16.9	When it comes to cycling, it's what separates the men from the boys and the great riders from the greatest.
0:22.6	There's definitely a bit more tension on the start line of mountainous stage.
0:28.6	It's the defending champion, 100 metres, with one of his most beautiful wins in his career.
0:34.6	Chances are you're probably going to be crawling back to that team bus after the stage.
0:38.3	You've gone so hard.
0:39.3	Vincenzo Niebelie is over four minutes behind on the road.
0:43.3	Alberto Contador is two and three quarter minutes behind on the road.
0:47.3	T.J. Van Garda and he's over two minutes back.
0:50.3	All of the overall riders are losing time, hand over fist here, to Chris Frum.
0:55.0	It doesn't hurt me.
0:57.0	You want to feel how it feels.
1:01.0	It is a bit of a poker game out there.
1:03.0	This Tour de France already is beginning to look like a battle between Frum and Nairo Kintana.
1:07.0	It's just this constant game of how you can play on each other's insecurities.
1:11.6	Chris Frum attacking Nidal-Kintana. When you get into those really high mountains, if you haven't done the work, it's going to show. Oh, Frum has attacked now and Frum has attacked and left Port behind. Port's done his job. There's nowhere to hide. You can't sit in a bunch. you can't rely on your teammates to protect you and shield you at that point.
1:10.5	Froome is going for it with 6K to go.
1:12.6	That's a long, you can't rely on your teammates to protect you and shield you at that point. Frum is going for it with 6K to go. That's a long, long way to go. Those scenes up on Montaulatou last year were very, very rare. Oh, Chris Frum's off his bike! Chris Frum is off his bike running up Montvanteau. I have never, ever seen anything like this in my life. Don't often run into those kind of situations, thankfully.
1:47.0	And the man at the front who's just a few hundred meters away from us, he's going to finish shortly.
1:52.0	It's the man in the yellow jersey.
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