Chris Froome (Team Sky) admits he felt the weight of the world on his shoulders as he entered the 2014 season as Tour de France champion, but two years on, and once again in the same boat, his outlook is markedly different.
The 30-year-old, cutting a relaxed figure as he sat down in front of journalists at Team Sky’s media day in Mallorca last week, explained how the pressure has eased over the last couple of years, and how fatherhood has only sharpened his sense of perspective.
“If I compare where I am right now to where I was in 2014 after winning the Tour de France the year before, I feel a lot more confident in myself and a lot more at ease in the position that I’m in. I don’t feel as though the whole world is on my shoulders like I did then,” he said.
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“There was a lot of pressure after winning in 2013. I don’t think that until you’ve been through that and been through the build-up to the Tour for the second time that you really get to fully appreciate it.”
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In 2014 Froome failed to live up to the lofty standards he set in 2013, when he claimed a string of stage race titles en route to winning the maillot jaune in July, though he was keen to point out that his inability to back up his Tour victory was simply down to the ill fortune of crashing.
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