PARIS - Softly-spoken, unfailingly polite but endowed with steely determination, Chris Froome somehow doesn't look like a sporting superstar. Froome said he will unlikely ever ride the Giro d'Italia, which Merckx also won five times, but he has unfinished business with the Vuelta a Espana. "It's very difficult to do back-to-back Grand Tours like that (May's Giro then the Tour in July). I'm going to the Olympics now, it would be amazing to get a result there," said Froome, who won time-trial bronze in London four years ago. Great Britain's Chris Froome (C) wins the Tour de France 2016Tall, starting to lose his hair, skinny, gangly and with a baby-face, to look at Froome he doesn't necessarily exude power, domination and confidence.

Source: Bangkok Post July 24, 2016 18:45 UTC