Chris Froome hit back today at doubts and innuendo about his dominant performance in this year’s Tour de France, insisting that both he and Team Sky ride clean.
A French journalist referred to comments and questions from the former riders Laurent Jalabert and Cédric Vasseur who now commentate for different French television channels during the Tour de France, They apparently expressed doubts about the legitimacy of Froome’s high-cadence attacks.
Jalabert raced for ONCE during the EPO-fuelled nineties and then with Bjarne Riis at CSC. Jalabert was named and shamed by a French senate report into doping in the 1998 Tour de France which tested urine samples for EPO, but he has always vaguely denied doping and kept is job commentating on national French television.
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“It’s quite rich coming from Jajabert and Vasseur, to be commenting on my racing in such a way,” Froome said during the press conference after he comfortably defended his race lead atop Plateau de Beille.
“It’s really disappointing, really disappointing. Those guys are people who the fans look up to and here they are casting doubts on current cycling, clean riders and clean teams. In my opinion, that’s not correct.”
On Thursday several French newspapers also questioned Froome’s performances in the mountains and especially the way he blew the peloton apart on the first mountain finish to La Pierre-Saint-Martin on Tuesday to take charge of the Tour de France. L’Equipe published a long article titled: Froome, les raisons pour la malaise – the reasons for the bad feelings.
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