Have you had your say on Chris Froome's data release? Plenty of people have...
The world and his wife have had their say on the big news overnight – Chris Froome’s numbers from his physiological tests.
Some are saying that it’s great that Froome is showing transparency, others are concerned that the tests have proved nothing. Some (God bless Twitter) are going online to make witty comments about the data.
Here are just a few of the tweets that caught our eye on the matter.
Sky Sports’s Orla Chennaoui says what we were all thinking when we skimmed through the report late last night…
The release of Froome's data proves just one thing for sure – it's blummin' difficult for a lay person to interpret power data.
— Orla Chennaoui (@SkyOrla) December 4, 2015
Whereas 100 Climbs author Simon Warren has another man on his mind.
Chris Froome described as 'close to human peak', So where does that place George Clooney?
— Simon Warren (@100Climbs) December 4, 2015
Cycling Weekly’s own Dr Hutch, who gave us his thoughts on the data, got this humble brag in.
Incidentally (and not blowing my own trumpet, just offering some context) my VO2 max at my best was bigger than Froome's.
— Michael Hutchinson (@Doctor_Hutch) December 4, 2015
While Daniel Friebe summed it all up nicely last night so that we didn’t have to read all the details.
https://twitter.com/friebos/status/672552606418509824
Gavin Hardwicke’s main takeaway from the piece was that Froome’s bike handling skills are not as good as many think…
The Chris Froome Esquire article does definitely prove one thing – he'd never make a cross rider!#Can'tRideTwoBikes pic.twitter.com/p3XOBWHZ2O
— Gavin Hardwicke (@GavinHardwicke) December 4, 2015
And Neil Hutchins had that sinking feeling that you experience when you discover that you’re a long way off being a professional cyclist.
So it turns out Chris Froome's FTP* is exactly twice what mine was when I tested it a month ago yet he weighs roughly the same as me.
— Neil Hutchins (@NeilHutchins) December 4, 2015