Chris Froome (Team Sky) has reiterated that winning a fifth Tour de France will be his priority in 2017, despite calls for him to tackle the Giro d’Italia next season for the first time since 2010, the year before his sudden emergence as a Grand Tour contender.
On Sunday, Froome became the first rider since Bernard Hinault in 1978 to win the Tour and Vuelta a España in the same season, and Hinault told William Fotheringham of the Guardian that he believed Froome’s next rendezvous ought to be the Giro.
“The Giro isn’t a race I have ruled out,” Froome told L’Équipe. “But everything would have to be very well planned so that it wouldn’t compromise my objective of winning a fifth Tour de France. That remains the principal objective of my career, my priority.”
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While the Tour is a certainty on Froome’s 2018 schedule, he suggested that the rest of his calendar will depend on the routes of the other Grand Tours. Froome has raced the Vuelta in six of the past seven seasons, missing the race just once, in the wake of his first Tour win in 2013.
“It’s hard to say at the moment, it’s a bit early,” Froome said of his 2018 programme. “I have to see the route of next year’s Giro and Tour. And the Vuelta, too. Based on that, I’ll be able to make some decisions.”
Froome appeared to rule out the prospect of attempting to win all three Grand Tours in one season. “That’s quite a savage challenge. You’d need an enormous amount of preparation and attention to detail to be able to attempt it,” he said.
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