PARIS – A defiant Chris Froome declared he was “not finished yet” on Monday as his new cycling team Israel Start Up Nation held a press conference ahead of a season in which the Briton is targeting a fifth Tour de France.
Froome has won four Tour de France races and switched from Ineos to ISN, backed by Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams, in his bid to join an elite clique led by Eddy Merckx who have won five.
Fighting back from a dreadful accident in June 2019, Froome will be 36 when the Tour rolls out of Brest, and much has happened since he last won a Tour de France in 2017.
But the steel that drove him to a magnificent seven Grand Tour titles was there in the Briton’s gaze when he outlined his plans.
“Age is a state of…
