Everything that is being said about Froome now has been said about AreCav.
If he's happy to finish 159th and so are those who pay his wages, it's his life.
Preach. I doubt he's happy about finishing so low down the order, but if he wants to ride the TdF and has a place in the team then fair play to him. God knows, I'd be in the broom wagon before the neutralised section on stage 1 finished.
As a great man once said, "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
I respect Froome far more for trying and failing than just giving up.
Preach. I doubt he's happy about finishing so low down the order, but if he wants to ride the TdF and has a place in the team then fair play to him. God knows, I'd be in the broom wagon before the neutralised section on stage 1 finished.
As a great man once said, "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
I respect Froome far more for trying and failing than just giving up.