Chris Froome doing less to achieve more in 2016

The two-time Tour de France winner has altered his build-up this year from the past, with the prospect of Tour de France, Olympics and Vuelta a España all on the horizon

Chris Froome is doing less to achieve more in 2016, say Team Sky. Froome just won the Critérium du Dauphiné, but immediately ahead he has planned the Tour de France in July and in August, the Olympics and Vuelta a España – which is why he pedalled into the year softer than normal.

The Tour de France favourite, having already won twice in 2013 and 2015, won the Herald Sun Tour in February, a stage in the Tour de Romandie and the overall in the Dauphiné last week. It may have seemed just as busy as last year's Tour lead-up, but it was not.

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