Summary: <p><strong>“He walks along with a lurch, unbalanced and awkward. If you are not prepared for how utterly changed his posture is off the bike, it comes as a shock.</strong></p><br><p>When we are inside his suite, I tell him what I think. ‘Honestly? You walk like a drunk, Chris.’</p><br><p>‘I do, he says, ‘yeah.'”</p><br><p>Following his horrendous crash prior to last year’s<em> </em>Dauphiné, many doubted we’d see Froome back on a bike, let alone planning his eighth Grand Tour victory.</p><br><p>Ned Boulting finds Froome in characteristic fighting form, training hard in Gran Canaria prior to lockdown, preparing for the Tour de France – if and when it happens.</p><br><p>He’ll be ready, no doubt about it.</p><br><p><strong>The Rouleur Longreads Podcast brings you selected long form articles from the magazine, especially recorded for Rouleur. Don’t stop what you’re doing – do it while listening to the world’s best cycling writing.</strong></p><br><p>The fifth in this series is ‘Chris Froome and the Seventh Seal’ by Ned Boulting, from Rouleur 20.3. <a href="https://journal.rouleur.cc/subscribe/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscribe today from just £7 to receive it</a>.</p><br><p>Read by <a href="https://twitter.com/_GeorgeOliver" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Oliver</a>.</p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
