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RSS FeedsLate climber Chris Froome is facing the toughest of challenges | Sean Ingle
(The Guardian Sports News)

 
 

14 december 2017 11:25:26

 
Late climber Chris Froome is facing the toughest of challenges | Sean Ingle
(The Guardian Sports News)
 


Champion´s rise from Kenya to the top of his sport began after his mid-20s but adverse analytical finding may cast shadow over extraordinary achievementsSome sports stars appear destined for glory even at an early age. Chris Froome´s true ability on a bike, however, started to uncoil and manifest itself only after his mid-20s. Since then his achievements have been staggering. Four Tour de France yellow jerseys. The first man to complete the Tour-Vuelta e España double since 1978. And that rare ability to hang with the best time-triallers and nimblest mountain goats.What makes Froome´s success even more extraordinary is that he grew up in Kenya, an athletics powerhouse but a cycling backwater, and only got into the sport, aged 12, when he asked a talented local rider David Kinjah to teach him to mountain bike. Soon the pair were regularly riding 30 miles up into the mountains above Nairobi where they would sometimes camp in a meadow. On one occasion a cow ate half their tent. Continue reading...


 
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