With four days racing left in the 2016 Vuelta a Espana, Team Sky's Dave Brailsford continues to believe that it is still possible for Chris Froome to win the race outright.
"It's less probable, but it's still possible," Brailsford told Cyclingnews after stage 17 had seen all the top four favourites finishing close together in the Mas de la Costa climb, and when asked if he believed victory in Madrid was still a realistic option for Chris Froome.
"We're still on it, and the thing about Chris Froome is he's the biggest fighter I've ever come across.
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"You've got to believe in it, because if you don't believe in it, it won't happen. You have think it's possible and you play your cards thinking 'right, I'm going to do this."
Reviewing the ascent to Mas de la Costa, where Sky's Leopold König was narrowly defeated in the stage win battle and Froome was able to resist attacks by Alberto Contador (Tinkoff) behind by using his usual pacing strategy for climbs, Brailsford argued, "I think there were two races and it's a real disappointment for Leo who I thought paced the climb fantastically well and just cut it a little bit short there at the end there.
"But equally for the gc guys, it was one of the toughest climbs of the Vuelta and on those types of climbs there's not so much tactics as race for survival.
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