Froome Targeting 2016 Tour De France & Olympic Success

Last updated : 01 October 2015 By Covsupport News Service

Chris Froome is targeting the 2016 Tour De France and the 2016 Rio Olympics next year.

In an interview with Sky Sports News HQ, Froome, the 2013 & 2015 Tour De France winner said: "It's a massive goal to set and I think I'm just going to have to take each event as it comes, but it's exciting. It's really exciting. 

"It's going to be an exciting year, that's for sure. The main focus for me is going to be the Tour de France again, but just on the back of the Tour de France, we have got the Olympic road race over in Rio, and a few days following that, potentially the Olympic time trial is also on the cards. Both the road race and the time trial do suit me very well. The time trial has over 1,000m of climbing in it, so it's going to be a tough time trial. I think it's over 50km, so for an individual time trial, that is a long event.

"I would love to get out to Rio and see the course. Whether there is the opportunity coming up soon to do that, or if we have to wait until next year, we still haven't worked that out yet, but I hope to get over at some point"Like anything in cycling, it's really difficult to plan too far in advance. You never know what is going to happen along the way and, at this point, I just have to look at the Tour de France and say, 'I need to be ready at the point', and anything after that, I need to basically take it as it comes.

"It's going to be key to see what the Tour de France has in store for us next year. We are going to have the presentation later in October to see exactly what next year's route is going to look like, and from there we can start planning accordingly."