{"id":10838,"date":"2023-06-24T03:11:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tour-de-france-four-time-champion-chris-froome-not-selected-by-israel-premier-tech\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T03:11:09","slug":"tour-de-france-four-time-champion-chris-froome-not-selected-by-israel-premier-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tour-de-france-four-time-champion-chris-froome-not-selected-by-israel-premier-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France: Four-time champion Chris Froome not selected by Israel-Premier Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Froome last won the Tour de France in 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Britain’s four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has been left out of Israel-Premier Tech’s eight-man squad for next month’s race.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Froome, 38, who has not won a race since 2018, had faced many mechanical issues in the build-up to the Tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Physically I was ready, but unfortunately I was unable to show my full ability due to equipment issues,” <\/span>Froome told GCN.<\/span>external-link<\/title><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

He <\/span>withdrew from last year’s race with Covid after stage 17.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Froome added of his absence from the 2023 edition: “I respect the team’s decision and will take some time before refocusing on objectives later in the season and returning to the Tour de France in 2024.”<\/span><\/p>\n

He joined Israel-Premier Tech in 2021, with the aim to get back to full fitness following a <\/span>2019 crash in which he sustained multiple injuries<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, he has struggled to regain the form he had at Team Sky and has been hampered this season by several forced bike changes.<\/span><\/p>\n

He won seven Grand Tours in 10 years at Team Sky – the Tour de France in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, the Giro d’Italia in 2018 and the Vuelta a Espana in 2011 and 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kjell Carlstrom, general manager of Israel-Premier Tech, said: “It was a tough decision to select our Tour de France team this year but we feel we selected eight riders best suited to fulfilling our performance objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The fact that we had a difficult decision to make when looking at our long list shows the strength and depth of our rider group, and unfortunately we could not select everyone.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Guillaume Boivin, Simon Clarke, Hugo Houle, Krists Neilands, Nick Schultz, Corbin Strong, Dylan Teuns and Michael Woods <\/span>will represent Israel-Premier Tech.<\/span>external-link<\/title><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Tour de France starts on 1 July in Bilbao.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Froome last won the Tour de France in 2017 Britain’s four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has been left out of Israel-Premier Tech’s eight-man squad for next month’s race. Froome, 38, who has not won a race since 2018, had faced many mechanical issues in the build-up to the Tour. “Physically I was ready, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10840,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions\/10840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}