Chris Froome's Tour de France victory
More or Less
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4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2013
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The winner of this year's Tour de France, British rider Chris Froome, faced numerous questions about doping during the course of his victory. More or Less assesses his performance stats, and asks whether maths can measure whether cycling really has cleaned up its act and whether Froome is simply a victim of the ghosts of cycling's past. Dr Ross Tucker from The Science of Sport website gives us his views and we hear from physiologist Fred Grappe - the only man to see Froome's tour data. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use |
| 0:07.0 | go to BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:17.0 | the programme which climbs a mountain of statistics so you don't have to. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Ruth Alexander. This week we assess the performance statistics |
| 0:25.0 | of the winner of this year's Tour de France. |
| 0:29.0 | How does it feel to stand up on that podium? |
| 0:32.0 | Fantastic, it's really amazing. |
| 0:34.0 | This is a special jersey, this is one everyone's after. |
| 0:38.0 | To be wearing this year today, it really means a lot to me. |
| 0:42.0 | Chris Froome won three stages of this year's grueling cycling competition |
| 0:46.0 | and celebrated with his sky teammates as they approached the finish line |
| 0:49.0 | on the Chancelisee. But the problem for Chris Froome was that he was racing |
| 0:53.0 | not just against his rivals but against the ghosts of cycling past. |
| 0:57.0 | Lancelme Strung and others who used drugs to dominate the Tour de France |
| 1:01.0 | in the 90s and 2000s. Critics have asked repeated questions |
| 1:05.0 | about whether Froome could be performing at such a high level without drugs. |
| 1:09.0 | Froome has remained adamant that he is clean. |
| 1:12.0 | I can understand why people are asking, given the history of the sport |
| 1:15.0 | and that they've been let down so many times before. |
| 1:18.0 | But I'm also one of those people who have been let down. |
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