Team Sky's Chris Froome has said he was more than satisfied with his performance on the Vuelta a España stage 2 summit finish at El Caminito del Rey.
Taking things steadily in his first road race since the Tour de France, Froome finished in seventh place and is lying seventh overall. The Sky rider is clearly not in as such spectacular climbing form as in the Tour de France, when barring earlier attacker Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha), the Briton dropped all his overall rivals with devastating ease on the Mur de Huy, that race’s first summit finish. But even so on Sunday of his key rivals, Nairo Quintana (Movistar) and Rodriguez gained a tiny amount of time - four seconds and one second respectively - on the Briton.
“We can be pretty happy as a team, Nicolas [Roche] was up there, so was Sergio [Henao] and Mikel [Nieve], just a little bit behind that, so I think as the first summit finish for the team we can all be pretty happy,” Froome said at the stage three start on Monday in Mijas.
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“Myself, personally, I was surprised with how decent the legs felt after not having raced properly since the Tour.”
“We’re looking forward to the rest of the race now, the morale’s high and we’ve still got everything to race for at this point.”
Asked whether he thought the bulk of the general classification riders had been shadowing each other rather than fighting to make an impact early on, Froome, who, encouragingly for Sky seemed to gain strength on the higher slopes of the finish, recognised that some tactical considerations had caused him to go steady.
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