Chris Froome (Sky) has announced that he will line out at next Sunday's RideLondon Classic before flying to Rio de Janeiro to compete in the road race and time trial at the Olympic Games.
Fresh from all but sealing his third overall Tour de France victory by finishing with the other general classification contenders on Saturday's penultimate stage to Morzine, Froome confirmed that his next competitive outing would be a rare appearance on British roads.
"I'm looking forward to a bit of recovery after this race but it looks like next weekend I'm going to RideLondon as a one-day race before we fly as a team out to Rio,"
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Froome said in Morzine on Saturday. "Then we'll fly as a team out to Rio and we'll be there almost a week before the race just to have a look at the roads a little more and start training a little more." Since joining Team Sky six years ago, Froome's lone appearances on British roads have come at that 2010 National Championships and the 2012 London Olympics, where he claimed bronze in the time trial.
"The last few years I haven't done much racing in the UK. I've really wanted to, but races like the Tour of Britain have coincided with the Vuelta, and the national championships being just before the Tour de France, it's a tricky time to include with all that travel time and tapering to get ready for the Tour," Froome said. "It will be a massive honour to go and engage with the British fans, and then to go from there straight out to Rio."
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