(Reuters) - Chris Froome's profile remains mystifyingly low in Britain but his Team Sky manager Dave Brailsford said he was up there with the greats of cycling after he claimed a fourth Tour de France in five years on Sunday.
It has not been a happy year for Brailsford, dogged by suspicions over Sky's use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) and the contents of a now notorious jiffy bag, but for the past three weeks Froome, as usual, has given his boss an easy ride.
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