Froome: I thought my fight for yellow was over

Chris Froome has admitted that he thought his Tour de France title defence was done when he had to stop and replace a broken wheel on stage 15 of the Tour de France. A broken spoke forced Froome to stop and take the wheel of his teammate Michal Kwiatkowski on the important penultimate climb of the day.

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