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Froome’s ride got compared to Landis. As I was watching it unfold I was thinking about Contador’s race-winning attack in the Vuelta a few years back. And after I can’t help think if Contador has done it everyone would be purring.
Instead they raise the ghost of Landis. A rider with potential but at the time barely more than a domestique. He cracked the day before, lost time, dosed up and ride over 8 cols solo against the combined wrath of a doped peloton.
So a shite comparison to Froome. Winner on the Zoncolan, strong in the ITT, still in fourth and the leader of the race riding beyond himself.