{"id":160711,"date":"2017-07-28T13:28:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=160711"},"modified":"2017-08-22T14:28:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:28:02","slug":"chris-froome-focused-winning-la-vuelta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/07\/28\/chris-froome-focused-winning-la-vuelta\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Froome Focused on Winning La Vuelta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s just Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain ahead of Froome in the Tour de France record books. And the Brit is definitely going to try to tie their five victories next year. But right now he\u2019s got his eyes on finally winning the Vuelta. He took three second places in the last couple of years, and that\u2019s just not enough for the leader of Team Sky.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Vuelta is a race I love racing. It\u2019s a vicious race but it\u2019s three weeks that I enjoy. I\u2019ve come second three times now and I\u2019d love to win the Vuelta. To win the Tour and the Vuelta in one year would be absolutely incredible. I\u2019ve got that opportunity now and I\u2019m certainly going to go for it.\u201d<br \/>\nThe elusive Spanish Grand Tour starts on August 19.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160606\" style=\"width: 1800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/profimedia-0342809414-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160606\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/profimedia-0342809414-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1343\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Team Sky celebrate on the presentation podium after winning the team award at the Tour de France in Paris on July 23, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think physically he can definitely keep on going. Then it\u2019s a question of mentality really, hunger and desire, and the willingness to work and put in the hours. Of course it\u2019s a very difficult sport in terms of managing your weight and constantly having to look after that side of life,\u201d said Team Sky manager, Sir Dave Brailsford.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ys-post-pinup\"><article class=\"loop-simple post-160659 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-family category-road-cycling tag-chris-froome tag-tdf tag-tour-de-france\" data-postid=\"160659\" role=\"article\" data-post-id=\"160659\" data-word-count=\"139\" data-headline-length=\"62\" data-category=\"Family\" data-author=\"Monica Buck\" data-published=\"2017-07-26T07:59:09+00:00\" data-published-day=\"Wednesday\">\n    <div class=\"entry-thumbnail article-thumbnail\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/profimedia-0342797202jpg-150x150.webp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/07\/26\/chris-froome-helps-fan-propose-tour-de-france-win\/\" class=\"image-holder\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/profimedia-0342797202jpg-1024x682.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/profimedia-0342797202jpg.webp 1178w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/profimedia-0342797202jpg-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/profimedia-0342797202jpg-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/profimedia-0342797202jpg-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/07\/profimedia-0342797202jpg-272x182.webp 272w\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1200px) 300px, (min-width: 768px) 25vw, 100vw\" alt=\"chris-froome-helps-fan-propose-tour-de-france-win\"\/><\/a><\/div>    <div class=\"entry-meta\">\n        <a class=\"label label-secondary post-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/category\/family\/\" title=\"Family\">Family<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"entry-details\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/07\/26\/chris-froome-helps-fan-propose-tour-de-france-win\/\" class='entry-title-wrapper'>\n            <h3 class=\"entry-title\"><span>Chris Froome Helps Fan to Propose After the Tour de France Win<\/span><\/h3>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>He seems to be confident that his team can get another victory, though. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason why not. We\u2019ve got four weeks to the start of the Vuelta. We\u2019ve got a couple of races in between but we\u2019ll dust ourselves down a little bit and go and do it all over again!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s just Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain ahead of Froome in the Tour de France record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":160713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[425,479],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-160711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-chris-froome","tag-la-vuelta"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chris Froome Focused on Winning La Vuelta - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s just Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain ahead of Froome in the Tour de France record books. 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