Cycling Weekly  |  17th August 2017
2017 VUELTA A ESPAÑA
Chris Froome is out of puff. “It feels like I'm breathing through a straw up here,” he tells Cycling Weekly from his altitude camp in the Isola in the Alps ahead of the Vuelta a España. “We’ve just finished a big time trial effort now but most of it was above 2,000m so it was like, arrgggh…” When we speak to Froome he is coming to the end of his Vuelta preparations but still has two criteriums to ride, in Kazakhstan and the Netherlands, before a final big training session on the
Tuesday, five days before the race starts. It looks as though Froome’s dream of a Tour-Vuelta double and joining the elite band of five-times Tour winners is starting to finally look like it could come true.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Cycling Weekly 17th August 2017.