Froome is hungry to go back-to-back in the Tour de France
It hasn't been done since the 1990s, with Miguel Indurain wining five in a row, but Team Sky's Dave Brailsford has backed Chris Froome to defend his Tour title in 2016.
Froome won the Tour in 2013 but crashed out a year later during the opening week. He returned to the race in 2015 and claimed his second title, and in Paris, for next year's route presentation, Brailsford said the rider's hunger to succeed was abundant within the British team's camp.
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"Honestly, I think it's probably easier to try and do it the second time rather than the first time. For the first time you come back with all that expectation and pressure. The second time, and you'd have to ask Chris this but you'd take it more in your stride. It's not been done recently because it's a really hard thing to do. A lot of it is down to the hunger of the riders, and how much appetite and drive they've got for it. In that sense, he's really hungry and ready to go."
Chris Froome and Andre Greipel attend Tuesday's Tour de France route presentation. (Bettini)
Greipel eyes Tour de France stages before talk of Green challenge can start
He may have won four stages in the 2015 Tour de France, but Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal) is keeping his feet on the ground and his ambitions modest for next year's race.
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