Chris Froome has reiterated his desire to attempt to win the Tour de France, Olympic road race and Olympic individual time trial. He will have to keep his physical condition during during the entire summer. Just 17 days separate the last stage of the three-week races (July 24) and the Olympic road race (August 6). The ITT will take place four days later.

"It is definitely a climbers' course and it's very different to the 2012 Olympic course. It's going to be gruelling", he told Sky Sports News. "There are cobbles in there, steep climbs, long climbs, and you have got to remember the teams are a maximum of five riders per nation. It could be a very different race to anything else we are used to."

There will more than 4,500m of climbing on the Olympic road race. The ITT will be very long (59.6 kilometers) and hilly. "It is a hilly course and I imagine that is why Tony has singled me out. But there is a long, flat section also, about 10-12km, so I am sure he will be pulling his time back there. But there is maybe [Tom] Dumoulin who also could go really well, and people are maybe forgetting my team-mate [Vasil] Kiryienka, the current TT world champion. I think he could go really well on that course, too."