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Chris Froome has done more than 30 hours on his home trainer on Monaco during some recent weeks of lock-down and says he hasn’t been drug tested.
He told The Times in an interview yesterday that he hasn’t been tested since he went into lock-down and clarified in the French media today that the last time he was tested was March 17th.
Froome said every time his door bell rang he was expecting
the dope testers to arrive but they have not.
His revelation that he has not been tested for about six
weeks follows Thibaut Pinot telling the French media he hasn’t had an out of
competition tests since last October.
“It doesn’t concern me because I know tests still are being carried out,” Froome said of the fact he hadn’t been tested though assuming others had.
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“I don’t know the numbers
but I’d like to think it’s still happening. I am expecting to be testing every
time the doorbell goes. I keep thinking ‘that’s them now’ but nine times out of
ten it’s the postman.”
Froome added while his current contract with Team Ineos
expires at the end of this year he believed he was nowhere near retirement,
adding he would race on for several years more.
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He also believed his recovery from his crash last June
was now complete and he was focusing now on reaching the kind of racing fitness
and strength he would normally have at this time of year.
He believes his condition is where it would be under
normal circumstances for this time of year and said he believed he could win a
fifth Tour.
“Hopefully people will write me off a little bit after
the crash and I think they have written me off to some extent,” he said.
“That could be to my advantage as well. Every time I have
come up against adversity it has always pushed me harder.”
At present he was trying his best to mimic the kind of
training he would normally do on Mount Teide in Tenerife, though overheating on
the home trainer was a big issue to contend it.
“On the indoor trainer that’s the biggest issue. There’s
just no ventilation. Even if you’ve got a fan you’re still going to overheat,”
he said.
“You’re going to experience a much higher heart rate and
your body feels as if it’s working much harder given that you don’t have any
freewheeling, and you don’t have much recovery between efforts.
“So it’s just a completely different mindset but I’ve obviously been trying to do the best I can.”
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