Cycling news - I've been dreaming of my Tour de France return, reveals Chris Froome
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Updated 24/06/2021 at 21:57 GMT
After a difficult few years, Chris Froome has finally made it back to the start line of the Tour de France. He has come through an awful accident plus team changes to take his place on the biggest stage of all - and admits the thought of being there motivated him throughout his darkest days.
Froome: This moment has been my motivation
Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome says he has been dreaming of the moment he could return to the race's start line.
It has been a turbulent few years for the 36-year-old.
He suffered serious injuries in June 2019 while in training for the Criterium du Dauphine, crashing into a wall and incurring a broken right leg plus fractures to his elbow and ribs.
He left INEOS a year later, putting an end to a decade-long association with the team, having joined at its inception.
He then joined Israel Start-Up Nation, for whom he has yet - perhaps unsurprisingly - failed to shine. He admitted in March that he had felt out of his depth at the Volta a Catalunya - and has also revealed that he has been working on nutrition to lose some bulk.
And at Le Tour's team presentation, Froome told the crowd: "It's a huge honour, huge privilege to be back here in Brest.
"Since crashing two years ago, this has been my motivation - to be back here on the start line of the Tour de France.
"I've been dreaming of this moment - a real pleasure to be here."
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