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his rabid wife
Can you show me three examples of this?
The continued abuse of Michelle Cound, based on virtually zero evidence, always strikes me as being thinly veiled misogyny.
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Wasn’t the whole thing started by Bradley Wiggins’ wife?
If I were Froome’s wife, I’d be pretty salty on Social media given the huge amount of shit/hate he gets, and in turn she gets.
Most of which I reckon is undeserved even if he was doping.He’s not the most likeable guy in cycling, but he comes across as polite and respectful, which apparently is worse than Armstrong’s behaviour.
Acliff
Ok never been a Froome fan. He comes with so much baggage: his strange story and transformation to GT dominance, his lack of discernible character in interviews, his rabid wife, the stories of stealing rabbits to feed his python, his crab-like riding style, the weird seated high-cadence, the Sky slow-strangulation-method of winning, jumping countries...but fuck me he’s done a thing.
That thing remains with an asterisk as the Guardian reporting was at pains to point out, but it is still a thing. A good thing. A testament to tenacity and bravery and my old favourite, sheer-bloody-mindedness. I’m of a mind the AAF for sabultamol doesn’t really change the thing. Chapeau Froome you disquieting, odd, and completely fearless little man.