Chris Froome: I’d love another chance to lead Team Sky

There are two subjects you do not mention to Chris Froome: Bradley Wiggins and drugs. Or so I was warned before meeting the second British winner of the Tour de France.

We are in the back of a Jaguar on the way to Heathrow, where Froome is due to catch a flight to Colorado. I have just asked him about his well-publicised rivalry with Wiggins. But, instead of my being thrown out of the car, Froome calmly says of his relationship with the man he succeeded as Tour winner: “It really is something that’s been built up in the media.”