Chris Froome

Tour de France winner Chris Froome heads a list of 10 riders who have signed new contracts with Team Sky for 2014.

Tour de France winner Chris Froome has shaken off the disease that troubled him during his ascent to the top of world cycling. The 28-year-old British rider has suffered from the parasitic infection bilharzia for at least the last four years.

Tour de France winner Chris Froome accepts he will never be close friends with arch rival Bradley Wiggins, but insists their relationship is 'in a good place' after meeting on a training camp in Mallorca.

Tour de France champion Chris Froome has won the Velo d'Or award as the best rider of 2013, just 12 months Sir Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win it.

Chris Froome declared himself happy with the route for next year’s Tour de France, which was unveiled in Paris on Wednesday, and confident that he can defend his title.

The unveiling of the 2014 Tour de France route in Paris on Wednesday included a couple of surprises but not concerning the start in Yorkshire.

Chris Froome was unable to end his memorable season on a high after pulling out of the men's road race at the World Championships in Tuscany.

Team Sky sporting director Dan Hunt revealed Chris Froome had withdrawn from the final stage of the US Pro Challenge as he had been feeling ill.

Sir Bradley Wiggins admits there is little chance of him winning the Tour de France again, but believes Chris Froome can win it five times.

Tour de France champion Chris Froome would be happy to see drug cheats kicked out of cycling for good.

Chris Froome sits back in his chauffeur-driven Jaguar, contemplating life as cycling's hottest property. It is a role that Britain's Tour de France winner cherishes as he eases himself back into the soft leather seat.

The Government will provide £10million of the expected £21million cost of next year's Tour De France Grand Depart. It has also been confirmed Sir Rodney Walker will head the organising committee.

The race leaders, including Froome, had passed by a gap in the trees during Saturday's Tour de France stage when Romain Marandet emerged from the forest and shot across the road several feet in the air.

Sir Dave Brailsford has pulled off an unprecedented double by leading two British cyclists to Tour de France glory in successive years.

Chris Froome has agreed terms to stay at Team Sky until the end of 2016 but by Monday, 24 hours after his Tour de France victory, he had yet to sign the contract.

Chris Froome is determined that his Tour de France title this year is just the start of a run of dominance in cycling's greatest race.

Tour de France winner Chris Froome is the ideal person to help cycling shed its image as a sport riddled with drugs cheats, according to his father.

In a flurry of sporting success, Britain's Chris Froome (pictured) became the second British man to win the Tour de France in as many years and England went two up in the Ashes after a comprehensive win over Australia.

Unlike last year's champion Sir Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome adds a stylish racing style to his substantial talent that will remove any lingering doubts following his drugs controversy.

Chris Froome has been crowned champion of the 100th Tour de France after finishing the ceremonial final Stage of the race.

Britain's Chris Froome rode to victory in Paris today, becoming the second British cyclist to win the tour in 99 years after Bradley Wiggins' victory last year.

Chris Froome chose to land in Paris in style before his inevitable Tour de France victory tonight. The 28-year-old leads by over five minutes and, barring a disaster, will take the yellow jersey.

Saturday August 4, 2012. Greg Rutherford, Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis gave Great Britain a wonderful day of sport when they picked up an Olympic gold a piece in front of a 80,000 capacity crowd in Stratford.

Chris Froome’s third-place finish yesterday gives him a 5min 3secs advantage and he simply needs to avoid an accident during today’s procession from Versailles to the Champs-Elysees to claim the trophy.

Chris Froome survived a brutal final climb to finish third on the penultimate stage of the Tour de France and stand on the brink of becoming Britain's second successive winner.

Barring catastrophe, Chris Froome will be crowned Tour de France champion in Paris on Sunday after surviving his final test in the leader’s yellow jersey, finishing third at the Alpine ski resort of Semnoz.

Chris Froome has one more test before Paris. One more stage to complete and one more mountain to overcome before the traditional procession into the French capital.

Pupils at St John's college in Johannesburg celebrated 'Froome Friday' by wearing yellow vests and lying down to spell out the cyclist's name.

There are no easy days in the Tour de France and Chris Froome must follow the double ascent of Alpe d’Huez with another tough Alpine stage to Le Grand-Bornand on Friday.

Chris Froome had much to fear before the 18th stage of the Tour de France, but the lack of a small sachet of energy gel was surely the last of his concerns.

Chris Froome is heading not only for Tour de France glory, but for the most emphatic win in almost 30 years. On Wednesday he claimed his third stage win, a 32km mountain time trial.

Chris Froome criticised his biggest rival for the Tour de France, Alberto Contador, for taking ‘unnecessary’ and ‘uncalculated’ risks after both riders fell towards the end of Stage 16.

The 100th Tour de France resumes after its second rest day with Chris Froome still in yellow and the Alps still to come.

Cyclist Chris Froome lashed out after growing frustrated at questions about doping a day after his historic win on Mont Ventoux.

It should have been a celebration but instead turned into an inquisition. Twenty-four hours after his solo victory on Mont Ventoux, on the second rest day of the Tour de France, Chris Froome was permitted to bask in the glory for all of two minutes.

Alberto Contador admitted he had no answer to Chris Froome after watching the Team Sky man strengthen his grip on the yellow jersey with a stunning victory on Mont Ventoux.

Chris Froome hailed 'the biggest win of my career' and took a giant step towards the Tour de France title by winning alone at the summit of Mont Ventoux after the longest stage of this year's race.

Chris Froome has admitted Team Sky are missing Sir Bradley Wiggins at the Tour de France as he fights to retain the yellow jersey.

RICHARD MOORE: An American magazine asked this week if Chris Froome’s performances were credible or possible only through drugs. They weren’t the only ones asking questions.

Marcel Kittel overpowered Mark Cavendish in a photo finish to take his third stage win of the 100th Tour de France. Chris Froome maintained his three minute and 25 second overall lead after stage 12.

Chris Froome took a giant step towards winning the Tour de France yesterday in a time trial marred by an attack on Mark Cavendish.

Team Sky's Chris Froome has increased his overall lead in the Tour de France after a storming time trial which was won by Germany's Tony Martin.

Chris Froome is looking to increase his overall lead in the Tour de France on Wednesday in the first of two individual time trials that feature in this year's race.

Chris Froome should face a more straightforward defence of his yellow jersey at the Tour de France as the race resumes on Tuesday after a rest day.

Team Sky have promised to get their train back on the rails in the second week of the Tour de France to keep Chris Froome in the yellow jersey.

So much for the Tour de France being over. Chris Froome’s first day in the yellow jersey proved harrowing as he came under sustained attack by rivals who had been written off following his victory on Saturday.

Chris Froome faces a tough first day in the yellow jersey of Tour de France leader with a ninth stage that includes five mountain passes in the Pyrenees.

Chris Froome has reiterated his promise that he will never be stripped of his results in a doping scandal after taking control of the 100th Tour de France.

Chris Froome moved into the Tour de France's yellow jersey with a huge show of strength from Team Sky on the first proper day in the mountains.

After seven days of skirmishes the Tour de France proper gets started on Saturday when the race enters the high mountains.

So smooth has Chris Froome's road to the 100th Tour de France been that it is tempting to see his coronation in Paris in three weeks as inevitable.

Alberto Contador has warned Team Sky and Chris Froome ahead of the forthcoming Tour de France: 'I've no intention of being a conformist in this race'.

All British eyes will be on Team Sky's Chris Froome at the Tour de France, but a Birmingham-born Irishman is capable of upsetting the odds, according to one former winner.

Chris Froome, the man hoping to succeed Sir Bradley Wiggins and become Britain’s second winner of the Tour de France, believes he can be a standard-bearer for a new cleaner cycling future.

Chris Froome has no intention of playing second fiddle to Sir Bradley Wiggins but has instead targeted up to seven wins in the Tour de France.

Chris Froome tried to play down his status as Tour de France favourite after an impressive victory in the Criterium du Dauphine.

Chris Froome, a master of the understated celebration, allowed himself a little smile as he consolidated a comfortable lead heading into today's final stage of the Criterium du Dauphine.

Chris Froome retained his firm grip of the Criterium du Dauphine yellow jersey while Europcar's Thomas Voeckler won a sprint finish up ahead on stage six on Friday.

Chris Froome opened up a significant lead at the Criterium du Dauphine with victory on stage five today and in the process threw down a marker to his Tour de France rivals.

Chris Froome slipped to seventh place overall but stayed in touch with the leaders after the second stage of the Criterium du Dauphine from Chatel to Oyonnax.

Canadian David Veilleux broke away to score the biggest victory of his career in the Criterium du Dauphine as Team Sky's Chris Froome led home the general classification contenders in Champery.

Britain's top cycling coach Shane Sutton has told his 'surrogate son' Sir Bradley Wiggins to ‘back off’ and support Team Sky colleague Chris Froome’s bid to win the Tour de France.

Sir Bradley Wiggins endured a tougher than expected day on and off the bike as Monday's third stage of the Giro d'Italia and confirmation he will not be Sky's leader at the Tour de France.

The inter-team rivalry between Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome and the debate over who will lead Team Sky at this year's Tour de France has been setting the cycling world alight.

It is Seb Coe versus Steve Ovett 30 years on, but with the racing tracks of the world exchanged for the gruelling mountains of France.

Britain's Chris Froome has won the Tour de Romandie, holding off the challenge of Simon Spilak by 54 seconds in Geneva.

Chris Froome took a major step towards winning his first Tour de Romandie — and emulating Sir Bradley Wiggins — by opening a 47sec lead ahead of the final stage.

Chris Froome maintained his six-second lead at the Tour de Romandie on Friday by finishing safely within the peloton on stage three.

Chris Froome holds a six second lead over American rival Andrew Talansky after stage one of the Tour de Romandie. The Team Sky rider will try to defend the race leader's yellow jersey until Sunday's finale.

Chris Froome is certain he will lead Team Sky's Tour de France challenge this summer ahead of defending champion Sir Bradley Wiggins.

Tour de France runner-up Chris Froome destroyed the field to win the final stage and the overall title at the Criterium International in Corsica as Team Sky completed a one-two.

After spending the 2012 season standing by Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome is learning to become a leader at Team Sky as the Briton gears up for the Tour de France, the ultimate goal of his season.

Chris Froome rode to an impressive victory on the mountain finish of Prati di Tivo to win stage four of the Tirreno-Adriatico.

Chris Froome has won the Tour of Oman, his first major stage race win and a boost to his Tour de France hopes. Froome took the overall classification 27 seconds ahead of Alberto Contador.

Team Sky's Chris Froome secured first place in the fifth stage of the Tour of Oman before tomorrow's final day in what will be his first major stage race win.

Team Sky cyclist Chris Froome leads the Tour of Oman after finishing second on stage four - there are just two days remaining in the race, which could be a rehearsal for the Tour de France.

Peter Sagan consolidated his lead in the Tour of Oman with his second successive stage win on day three as Team Sky rider Chris Froome slipped out of the top 10.

Team Sky's Chris Froome finished sixth on the second day of the Tour of Oman as Slovakia's Peter Sagan clinched a breakaway victory in Al Bustan to claim the overall lead.

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