Richie Porte (BMC Racing) has told Cyclingnews that he goes into the Tour de France with his friendship with Chris Froome (Team Sky) on hold as he looks to end his former teammate's dominance in the race.
Porte has been labelled as the Tour de France favourite by many including Froome, after his impressive show of form at the Criterium du Dauphine. The Australian convincingly beat Froome in the individual time trial and dropped him on the two mountain finishes before going on to take second overall behind Jakob Fuglsang (Astana).
The pair clashed on the final stage with Porte flat out accusing Froome of racing with the sole purpose of making sure the BMC rider lost, rather than trying to win the race. Froome rejected the idea but the growing tension between the two has been one of the defining features leading up to the start of the Tour de France.
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Last week Froome told Cyclingnews that the pair had met up and discussed the Dauphine and that they remained friends off the bike. This year's Tour de France is far from a two-horse race but the pair seem on a collision course as they battle for the yellow jersey.
"He has a different take on it to what I do, but at the end of the day Froome and I have been through a lot of scraps together so we'll always be mates off the bike," Porte told Cyclingnews when asked about the Dauphine episode.
"It doesn't matter if I agree with his tactics, and a race is a race. Certainly I learnt a few things on the Dauphine."
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