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Chris Froome is a British cyclist riding for professional team “Team Sky”. Froome has won the most prestigious cycling on the planet not once but twice. In 2013 Froome became the second ever British rider to win the Tour de France, and the first ever to win it twice win he crossed the finish line on the Champs Elysées in 2015. Froome was born in Nairobi, Kenya, 3000m above sea-level, and many believe this is why he is one of the greatest cyclists of today. However there are some who believe he achieved his remarkable victories due to the aid of performance enhancing drugs.
The claims came after his incredible victory on the climb of La Pierre-Saint Martin on stage 10 of the 2015 Tour de France. The French press claim that his performance …show more content…

“If the French don’t like him, it’s because they are scared of being cheated and disappointed all over again. Many of us supported Armstrong. Now we see Froome riding just as well as he did in the Pyrenees and we are afraid to say ‘Bravo, what a great rider’.”

A British cycling supporter, Matthew Greks, said that it is too simple to accuse the French public and press of being anti-British. “They took Bradley Wiggins to their heart when he won in 2012. When Froome won in 2013, L’Equipe (the daily French sports paper) had a banner headline in English, ‘What a champion’.”
Mr Greks added: “Many British cycling fans don’t like Froome much either. Compared to Wiggins, he is very mechanical in his public pronouncements.”
Different perspectives have caused confusion in this topic. A Frenchmen with no evidence claims that Froome is doping. This has caused most of the French people to do the same as France is a proud nation.
The fact that Lance Armstrong had been doping for years and nobody could trace it also adds to the uncertainty. There is a phrase in cycling that says that the dopers will always be one step ahead of the tests. Never more was this true in Armstrong’s

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