Heading into the first rest day of the Tour de France, Chris Froome holds the yellow jersey by a slim margin. Nairo Quintana, Adam Yates, and a few other plucky challengers are right there with him, but Froome and Team Sky have done what they do every year: wring the life out of every vaguely hilly stage until Froome's rivals are good and tired, so he can jump off the front with the least resistance possible. This is usually a fairly boring tactic, one which has contributed to his disproportiona...
Heading into the first rest day of the Tour de France, Chris Froome holds the yellow jersey by a slim margin. Nairo Quintana, Adam Yates, and a few other plucky challengers are right there with him, but Froome and Team Sky have done what they do every year: wring the life out of every vaguely hilly stage until Froome's rivals are good and tired, so he can jump off the front with the least resistance possible. This is usually a fairly boring tactic, one which has contributed to his disproportiona...
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