The British Chris Froome, four-time winner of the Tour de France, will leave the Ineos team at the end of the season, announced this Thursday the cycling training.
“The Ineos team confirms that Chris Froome’s contract will not be prolonged, so after ten very good years, this season will be Chris’s last in the team,” said Ineos on Twitter, who in 2019 succeeded Sky as a sponsor. principal of the British formation, with which the cyclist born in Kenya 35 years ago he has won the Tour four times (2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017). Froome adds to her spectacular track record two editions of the Vuelta a España (2011 and 2017) and a Tour of Italy (2018).
The British cyclist missed the Tour de France in 2019 due to a serious fall at the Dauphiné. He returned to competition in February in Dubai on the Tour of the United Arab Emirates, a race that was suspended before the end by the coronavirus pandemic.
Internal competition
His great goal is win the ‘Grande Boucle’ again. «My dream, when I retire, would be to have won more Tours de France than anyone else. It would be the dream scenario, but I know there is still a lot of work to make that come true, “he said in an interview with ‘L’Equipe’ in late April.
In recent years, Froome has seen several of his teammates progress at Ineos. Your compatriot Geraint Thomas He took away the victory on the Tour in 2018, while in 2019 the young Colombian won Egan Bernal, twelve years younger than him.
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