Stage 11 of the Tour de France saw the peloton tackle the Col d’Aspin and the mighty Col du Tourmalet, but at times on Wednesday, it felt as though the highest point of the race so far had been dwarfed by Mont Ventoux and La Farrapona.
A day on from establishing a seemingly unassailable lead atop the overall standings on La Pierre-Saint-Martin, Chris Froome (Sky) was relatively untroubled on the road from Pau to Cauterets. The afternoon’s most probing questions were to come in his post-stage press conference.
On Wednesday morning, some British newspapers who had been privately briefed by Team Sky published stories reporting that Froome would be willing to undergo additional, independent physiological testing in a bid to prove that he is competing clean.
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The pledge followed former Festina trainer Antoine Vayer’s publication of Froome’s leaked power data from his 2013 victory on Mont Ventoux – and pre-empted the uploading of a follow-up video on Wednesday afternoon which claimed to show Froome’s power data from his second place finish at La Farrapona at last year’s Vuelta a España.
The Times reported that Froome was willing to submit to such testing between now and the Vuelta a España in late August, though the yellow jersey was non-committal in the extreme when asked to discuss the matter during his press conference in Cauterets on Wednesday evening.
“Right here at the moment my focus is on the race. I’m open-minded to potentially doing some physiological testing at some point after the Tour or at whatever point suits,” Froome said. “There would be some interesting things to come out of it and maybe as a team we’d even learn something from it. At the moment, I’m focused on the race. I certainly don’t have plans of just releasing data out into the public.
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