Froome 指名するd as Team Sky leader for 小旅行する de フラン
Chris Froome has been 指名するd as the leader for Team Sky at the 小旅行する de フラン after the UCI ended its anti-麻薬ing 調査 in to the four-time 勝利者 on Monday.
Froome had 直面するd the prospect of 存在 banned from 調印 on by 小旅行する organisers until the UCI’s 告示 that it had ended its 調査 into an 逆の analytical finding for Salbutamol at La Vuelta last year.
That 事例／患者 was wrapped up 24 hours before Froome was 予定 to 控訴，上告 to the French Olympic 委員会 to be 許すd to race, and Team Sky have now 発表するd their squad for the 小旅行する, which begins on Saturday in Noirmoutier-en-l’Ile.
Chris Froome とじ込み／提出する Photo
As he 企て，努力，提案s for a 記録，記録的な／記録する-equalling fifth 小旅行する 栄冠を与える and fourth Grand 小旅行する on the trot に引き続いて victories in the 小旅行する, Vuelta and Giro d’Italia in the last year, Froome will be supported by a typically strong Team Sky line-up which 含むs fellow Brits Geraint Thomas and Luke 列／漕ぐ／騒動, former world 支持する／優勝者 Michal Kwiatkowski, 最高の-domestique Wout Poels 同様に as Egan Bernal, Jonathan Castroviejo and Gianni Moscon.
“The last twelve months have been the hardest but also the most incredible of my career,” Froome said. “I’ve never started the 小旅行する de フラン after riding the Giro d’Italia and it has meant a 完全に different approach to my season. But I learnt a lot from riding the Vuelta straight after the 小旅行する de フラン last year which has given me 信用／信任 coming into this race.
“I want to make history with a fifth 小旅行する de フラン 勝利，勝つ and fourth 連続した Grand 小旅行する. I am under no illusion about the challenge, but I am feeling ready and I couldn’t ask for a better team to support me. This is the biggest race of the year, in 前線 of the most 熱烈な cycling fans, and I can’t wait to get racing.”
If Froome is wearing yellow in Paris on July 29, he will join Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Jacques Anquetil and Miguel Indurain as the only five-time 勝利者s of the 小旅行する, and also become the first man to do the Giro-小旅行する 二塁打 since Marco Pantani in 1998.
Thomas has looked in stellar form in 最近の weeks as he followed up his Criterium du Dauphine victory by becoming the British time 裁判，公判 支持する／優勝者, and the Welshman ? who is in a 契約 year ? is 推定する／予想するd to be a 保護するd rider as the team’s 支援する-up 計画（する） if Froome should 滞る.
列／漕ぐ／騒動 will race いっそう少なく than a year after he broke his 脚 in 多重の places while whitewater rafting on his brother’s stag do last August. There had been 恐れるs for the Welshman’s career but the 高度に-valued road captain returned to racing in February and has looked strong.
There are 小旅行する debuts for Moscon and the impressive young Colombian Bernal. Moscon’s talent earns him a place にもかかわらず 論争.
The Italian 人種上 乱用d FDJ’s Kevin Reza at the 小旅行する de Romandie last year, 収入 a six-week 中断, and was then （刑事）被告 of deliberately 原因（となる）ing a 衝突，墜落 with Reza’s team-mate Sebastien Reichenbach in 天罰 for him 最高潮の場面ing that 乱用, though he was （疑いを）晴らすd of 悪事を働くこと in the latter 事例／患者 in June.
Poels and Kwiatkowski were both 星／主役にする performers in last year’s 小旅行する squad, and Poels was also a 重要な members of the team that helped Froome to glory in the Giro in May.
With a first week of the race that 含むs cobbles, a team time 裁判，公判 and the expectaction of crosswinds, there is plenty for Froome and the other general 分類 希望に満ちたs to 生き残る before the mountains come in the second and third weeks.
“We have chosen the 小旅行する squad to support (Froome) that we believe is best equipped to 会合，会う the 需要・要求するs of this year’s race,” team 主要な／長／主犯 Sir Dave Brailsford said. “It is a team of real versatility and one that balances 青年 with experience.
“We ar e really proud that Gianni Moscon and Egan Bernal will be making their 小旅行する de フラン debuts with us. They are both very talented bike riders and will have a lot to 申し込む／申し出.
“It is also fantastic that Luke 列／漕ぐ／騒動 will be riding the 小旅行する again as our road captain after his serious 事故 last summer. It is a testament to his ability and 決意 that he has come 支援する so 堅固に.”
