Five-time Tour de France champion Bernard Hinault has said that he believes Vuelta a Espana winner Chris Froome's next target ought to be the Giro d'Italia in 2018, prior to heading to the Tour de France.
Hinault was the last rider to pull off the Vuelta and Tour double, in 1978, and he also won the Giro d'Italia three times.
"He has proved that you can win the Tour and the Vuelta in the same year, so why not the Giro?" Hinault told the Guardian.
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"What he has managed in Spain is a great thing because the general view was that it was not possible to win either the Giro and Tour or the Tour and Vuelta in the modern era.
"He wasn't as dominant as usual in the Tour, but he's really rediscovered his true capacity at the Vuelta, in spite of having one or two difficult days."
Hinault also argued that it is impossible to establish a hierarchy of the achievements of different cycling greats in the Grand Tours, given that they were racing in very different eras.
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