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Team Sky's
Chris Froome has received an OBE
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Tour de France winner
Chris Froome says receiving an OBE is the perfect way to cap off an
"amazing" 2015. The 30-year-old Team Sky rider, who welcomed his first child
a fortnight ago, won the yellow jersey for the second time in July and has been recognized in the New Year's Honours List.
Press Association report continues:
Froome's
Tour de France triumph came in adversity amid constant accusations of doping
and he was even subject to a spectator throwing urine at him.
He
thrived, though, and became the first rider since 1970 to win the yellow and
polka dot - for winning the mountains classification - jerseys.
"It
feels fantastic, it really has been an amazing year, both professionally and
personally," Froome told BBC Radio 5 Live. "It is an amazing way to
cap the year off.
"It
was a trying year, it didn't come without it's difficulties.
"We
took a lot of criticism and hostility from certain sectors but it really was a
fantastic year.
"How
that pulled us together as a group, how the team performed as a unit was great.
I wouldn't have been able to do what I did without the support of such a strong
team."
Froome
is looking forward to an even better 2016 and is targeting a third success in
France followed up by more glory in the Rio Olympics.
"
I am 30 years old at the minute, I definitely feel as if I have got a few years
left at least," he added.
"I want to concentrate
on the Tour de France next year and, being an Olympic year, it would be
incredible to go on from the Tour de France to Rio and give that my all."
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