Michelle Froome, the agent and wife of seven-time Grand Tour winner Chris Froome, appeared today to have deleted her X (formerly Twitter) account, only to reinstate it hours later – two days after publishing a series of inflammatory posts claiming that Muslims are “here to take over” and are a “drain on modern society”, and that “there are no innocent Gazans”.
Earlier this week, Israel – Premier Tech, the UCI ProTeam Chris Froome has represented since 2021, distanced itself from the social media posts, which have sparked renewed calls from pro-Palestine activists to target the team at this year’s Giro d’Italia and Tour de France.
Responding to a question from road.cc about Michelle Froome’s posts, Israel – Premier Tech said: “Any comments or beliefs made public by third parties associated with the team’s riders or staff do not represent Israel – Premier Tech, its team members, or its partners.”
That comment came after Michelle Froome had made a hugely controversial return to X/Twitter on Monday with a string of posts about the ongoing situation in Israel and Gaza, having not posted on her account since 2020.
“First they’ll come for Israel, then the rest of the world. Be warned… it doesn’t end here,” the first tweet said.
“Women’s rights matter! Gay rights matter! Trans rights matter! Hamas doesn’t support any of those. Take the blindfolds off and see the reality of the hatred they are spreading. There are no innocent Gazans.
“I’m sick of sitting idly by quietly supporting Israel while the Hamas propaganda takes over social media. Enough is enough! The silent majority needs to stand up and be heard. We don’t want your religion, we don’t want your beliefs. It is not compatible with modern civilisation.
“Muslims are no longer the minority they claim to be. They are here to take over. The UK, France, they are happy to claim the benefits but will not integrate into those communities. They will continue to TAKE what suits them. They are a drain on modern society.
“It’s time people stop pandering to the political correctness. It’s all a facade. They burned babies alive. They deserve no remorse whatsoever. This is just the beginning. WAKE UP.”
Other tweets said she had “reported multiple posts on TikTok sharing Hamas propaganda” and “if anyone is surprised that I have strong opinions they clearly haven’t been around cycling long enough.”
“I have been quiet but I will not be quiet anymore,” she continued. “This is not about cycling it is about the world my children are being raised in, more parents need to be concerned about this.”
The account had not posted in a few years, but old posts include reaction to Froome’s 2017 Tour victory and crash at the 2019 Critérium du Dauphiné.
The 38-year-old professional cyclist, aiming to return to the Tour this summer having missed out on selection in 2023, has not commented on his wife and agent’s posts, having last posted on Instagram at the weekend. In January, he appeared in social media videos shared by Israel’s Foreign Ministry and the official State of Israel account promoting a solidarity ride in support of hostages held in Gaza.
Following an online backlash to her anti-Muslim rant, Michelle Froome’s X/Twitter account appeared to have been deleted on Wednesday morning, only to be reinstated a few hours later, as she posted another inflammatory anti-Muslim message.
Her social media outbursts also appear to have sparked renewed calls from pro-Palestine activists to protest her husband’s Israel–Premier Tech team along the route of this year’s Giro d’Italia and Tour de France.
“We call for more protests than ever along the race routes of the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France, which will start from Italy this year,” the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel said on Monday.
The group also claimed that Israel–Premier Tech is “Israeli government-sponsored” (despite its strong links to Israel through its owners, the team is not directly connected to the state), and that it exists to “sportswash” what it calls a “75-year-long regime of military occupation and apartheid”.
> Brailsford threatened to fine Wiggins if he didn’t support Froome in Tour de France
During the 2012 Tour de France, Michelle and Cath Wiggins, ex-wife of Bradley, became embroiled in a Twitter spat moments after the two riders crossed the finish line on stage 11, Froome having controversially attacked teammate and yellow jersey Wiggins before waiting on team orders.
“Beyond disappointed… I know what happened just then,” Michelle tweeted, before adding in a follow-up post: “If you want loyalty, get a Froome dog… a quality I value… although being taken advantage of by others!”
69 thoughts on “Michelle Froome deletes social media account after Muslims “drain on modern society” rant, as pro-Palestine activists call for protests against Israel-Premier Tech”
I think she may have over
I think she may have over delivered on an internal team briefing to show public support for Israel.
Good work???
Probably best to put an old
Probably best to put an old mat down for this one, mods…
I’d a look at her Twitter
I’d a look at her Twitter feed – properly unpleasant.
I’m shocked. *Shocked* I tell
I’m shocked. *Shocked* I tell you. An unkind person might say that Chris Froome is a useful idiot and a pawn in sportswashing. Not me though, no sir.
she should pause and ask what
she should pause and ask what she thinks good parenting looks like…”it is about the world my children are being raised in, more parents need to be concerned about this”……I would be concerned of any parent who educates their children with unfounded hate and genralised discrimination.
Let’s hope it’s another 4
Let’s hope it’s another 4 years until she tweets again
Michelle Froome wrote:
So, just as an example, what had five-month-old twins Naeim and Wissam Abu Anza, killed in an Israeli airstrike on a civilian house, done in their short time on earth to make them “not innocent”? Or the other 13,750 children killed thus far? Every bit as innocent as the poor Israeli children murdered by Hamas. Say they are a tragic consequence of a necessary action, if you really believe that, but don’t give out that they are all in some way guilty because they had the misfortune to be born in that place at this time.
What a vile creature she is,
What a vile creature she is, along with all the others who trot that out.
Rendel Harris wrote:
So, just as an example, what had five-month-old twins Naeim and Wissam Abu Anza, killed in an Israeli airstrike on a civilian house, done in their short time on earth to make them “not innocent”? Or the other 13,750 children killed thus far? Every bit as innocent as the poor Israeli children murdered by Hamas. Say they are a tragic consequence of a necessary action, if you really believe that, but don’t give out that they are all in some way guilty because they had the misfortune to be born in that place at this time.— Michelle Froome
Why do you say Gaza children were killed but Israeli children murdered?
This here is a problem we have with the msm, they play done the murders of one country but ramp up for the other country.
Surely, the children on both sides are murdered.
7 October was just a bit of
7 October was just a bit of harmless fun until the “msm” ramped it up.
john_smith wrote:
Pardon me, how is that a sensible response to what dubwise wrote? They wrote “the children on both sides are murdered” with no seeking to downplay the Hamas atrocities whatsoever.
It’s a straw man because
It’s a straw man because trying to support Israel’s actions whilst attempting to remain logical and compassionate is impossible.
Just a suggestion…..
Just a suggestion….. Abolish ALL religions and one less thing to fight/feel superior about…. No religion is perfect and neither are we but when your belief system tells you you’re better than everyone else. You’re gonna piss people off! I don’t support the conflict in the middle east whatsoever as I stand by my previous statement…. The Israel/Gazan conflict is a religious dispute, both sides hiding behind their respective religious shields whilst both guilty of horrendous acts. In short neither side is going to be happy till the other doesn’t exist.
Armed resistance and genocide
Armed resistance and genocide are not the same thing
An alternative statement is.
An alternative statement is.
Terrorism and alleged genocide are not the same thing
‘alleged’ by multiple
‘alleged’ by multiple organisations which know about this sort of thing. Nelson Mandela was a ‘terrorist’.
Dogless wrote:
when does armed resistance become genocide?
If it’s resisting an
When you’re killing innocents in the thousands, in hospitals, homes and refugee camps maybe? Dunno, you tell me.
It’s certainly not the case
It’s certainly not the case that all religions tell you you’re better than everyone else. And even if you managed to abolish all religions (which would involve abolishing many of the fundamental freedoms on which liberal socities are based), you’d still be left with the likes of Putin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao. Indeed it is debatable whether Hamas and co. wouldn’t find some other reason to murder people if their religion were taken from them.
if you think this is a
if you think this is a religious war you are fundementally mistaken – it is about power and control and land.
I welcome you critique no I
I welcome you critique no I acknowledge majority conflicts are for land, maintaining power and control after the fact are a separate obstacle altogether choosing the facade of religious/racial prejudice are just convenient non rationals to hide behind. I could’ve gone in depth with the current Russia/Ukraine conflict with China wanting Taiwan for the same reasons as comparison but at what point is it enough? Same goes for you all I welcome your responses debate is healthy so long as you’re open minded and stay open minded!
Read the Hamas 1988 covenant.
Read the Hamas 1988 covenant. It makes very clear, that this is a reigious war against the Jews, (a term it use interchangeably with Zionist) and here are a few qotation to illustrate my point.
“The Islamic Resistance Movement: The Movement’s programme is Islam. From it, it draws its ideas, ways of thinking and understanding of the universe, life and man. It resorts to it for judgement in all its conduct, and it is inspired by it for guidance of its steps.”
“
Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).”
“Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.”
This isn’t a religious war?
To be clear, I disagree with most of what she wrote, and like most of us on here, strongly wish she had never opened her mouth.
Duh. Its an excuse. They
Duh. Its an excuse. They would find another.
Born_peddling wrote:
Imagine…
Annnnnnnd the twitter account
Annnnnnnd the twitter account is gone.
I am guessing there were some awkward conversations in the Froome household this morning….
Patrick9-32 wrote:
People are wise to deletions now and someone will always get a screenshot – one of her choicer efforts below. Also apparently Muslims come to Europe so they can claim medical benefits for their children who are all disabled because they married their cousins…
Are you absolutely sure that
Are you absolutely sure that is genuine? What do you hope to achieve by posting it here?
Why not? Vile individuals
Why not? Vile individuals need holding to account and shaming – at least until they apologise.
john_smith wrote:
Yes it’s genuine and I believe it was worth sharing now that she’s deleted it to demonstrate that this wasn’t just righteous anger at what is going on in Israel/Gaza at the moment but a fully fledged hate rant.
It’s getting worse than
It’s getting worse than sporting spoilers! Come here to avoid X/Twitter and find people cross-posting all the barrel-scrapings from there.
chrisonabike wrote:
Well it’s a little bit difficult to write or indeed comment on somebody’s Twitter rant without quoting from Twitter…
Exactly. That would be a
Exactly. That would be a good place to stop!
“If you can’t find something nice to say, go on social media”, no?
Road.cc could just pin “Outrage as someone says something shocking / asinine / hateful on Twitter” on the home page. But presumably all those with a taste for that are already there?
Mind you we’d lose those cheerful bike bus / Timmy Mallet’s travels / “I made a bike for refugees out of discarded Conservative MPs” stories.
chrisonabike wrote:
Gives new meaning to “boris bike”…
Timmy Mallet’s travels ..
Timmy Mallet’s travels .. that was a twitter high point. More of this sort of thing.
chrisonabike wrote:
Let’s be blunt – this website is a conglomerate of shock-horror “news stories” for cyclist allied with a load of pretend-reviews that are obviously adverts. As with the old-fashioned style of “news” found in newspaps and on the idiot-box, the RoadCC shockyhorrors are now peppered with the sludge made of swivel-eyed slebs, Toryspiv, rabid-righty yell-hoot and their various antisocial-media spews.
There are better things to do with your life than come here to pick up new sleb enemies and get depressed over the slide of all things human into a cesspit of rotted kkkultural effluent.
Going after someone’s wife
Going after someone’s wife for something entirely non-cycling-related is surely a bit different from the usual “what an antisocial motorist/’journalist’/Tory did today” stuff though.
john_smith wrote:
“Going after” = “reporting on”. If she’s got grief for her extremely nasty opinions that’s on her for having the opinions, not the people who report them.
As for “someone’s wife for something entirely non-cycling-related”, she is a well-known and somewhat notorious figure in the cycling world for her previous actions and she is using that position as a way of spreading her opinions. There is an element of those who live by the sword shall die by the sword here, she can’t use her husband’s fame to gain a large social media following by commenting on him and attacking his rivals and then say it’s not fair, people are only paying attention to me because of my husband. Furthermore, her husband rides for an Israeli team that has been accused of being a sportswashing vehicle for the Israeli government and he has been almost completely silent on the issues arising from the current conflict, so the views of someone close to him with which, presumably, he does not entirely disagree are bound to be of interest. All of this context makes it a perfectly legitimate story for this and other cycling media to report, in my opinion.
Cugel wrote:
If you hate it so much why are you here and commenting? Doesnt that make you part of the problem?
Dont let the door hit you on the arse on your way out….
Cugel wrote:
And yet here you are….
Does her husband know that
Does her husband know that divorce is legal in many countries?
Who’s taken over who’s land
Who’s taken over who’s land in Israel, and against international law? https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/
Amnesty international is
Amnesty international is considered by Jews to be one of the most antisemitic organisations that is accepted in the western world.
My great great grandparents, religious orthodox Jews, moved to The Land in the 1920’s. They did not take over anybody’s land, but moved for religgious reasons, so were even willing to live by swampland which harboured the mosquitoes that gave my great grandfather malaria. A few years ago, there was international uproar when some arabs were evicted from properties in Jerusalem. Those shouting “Filthy land-grabbing Zionists” did not care that Jews bought the land in the nineteenth century, but were forced out by Jordan when Jordan captured the land in 1948, in the war they (and the other surrounding countries) started, for the sole purpose of trying to stop the land (British Mandate of Palestine) going to the Jews.
2 years ago, in the summer, I stayed in an area called Alon Shevut for a few weeks. Its name means ‘the captive oak tree’. It is called this, becuse up until 1948 is had a Jewish community, and so did the surrounding hills, until during the war of independance the Arabs conquered the entire area and threw grenade after grenade into the bunker being used as the hospital.
I saw that bunker in Kfar Etzion with my own eyes.
For the next 19 years, all that was left of the Jewish life there was one oak tree.
Whose land was stolen?
(Just a few dozen metres down the road from Alon Shevut is the spot where in 2014 three students were kidnapped by terrorists and murdered, one of the events which caused the 2014 war with Hamas, in which groups of people filled London’s streets chanting ‘Hitler was right’ in arabic.)
theJewishcyclist wrote:
All Jews? Quite presumptive to speak on behalf of such a diverse population with such a wide range of views, no?
Rendel Harris wrote:
Maybe by “Jews”, in this case, they actually mean the government of the State of Israel?
After all, we do seem to be gradually creeping toward the viewpoint that criticism of the State of Israel is the same thing as criticism of “all Jews”…
I’ve had to put my wellies
I’ve had to put my wellies and gloves back on again … but perhaps a thoughtful consideration of the following would be helpful for those – with a range of views?
[…] The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism responds to “the IHRA Definition,” the document that was adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in 2016. Because the IHRA Definition is unclear in key respects and widely open to different interpretations, it has caused confusion and generated controversy, hence weakening the fight against antisemitism. Noting that it calls itself “a working definition,” we have sought to improve on it by offering (a) a clearer core definition and (b) a coherent set of guidelines.— Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism
https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
Of course, other definitions are available:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_definition_of_antisemitism#Competing_definitions_of_antisemitism
brooksby wrote:
Indeed, which is somewhat confusing given that the IHRA definition of antisemitism specifically includes conflating all Jews with the state of Israel as being antisemitic.
Yes, but all religious Jews
Yes, but all religious Jews are by default Zionists. We beseech G-D 3 times a day in our prayers to gather us to the Land of Israel and “Gather us together from the four corners of the world,” “And to Jerusalem Your city return with mercy, and dwell within it as You said…” (we also always end the Standing Prayer, the key part of our prayers with a prayer for peace). So while conflating all Jews with the State (government) of Israel, and blaming them for its actions is antisemitic, e.g. shouting at someone on the mere basis of him being Jewish, conflating Jews with the Land of Israel is not, hence the now disused term for Jews ‘Israelites’.
theJewishcyclist wrote:
So when you said “all Jews” you didn’t actually mean all Jews, just religious ones. However even that distinction is erroneous, as you must surely know. There are numerous practising religious Jews who oppose Zionism, ranging from the ultraorthodox to the extremely liberal. What you really mean, I assume, by “all religious Jews” is “all Jews who subscribe to my view of interpretation of scripture and Jewish tradition”, which is rather different.
Woman who lives in tax haven
Woman who lives in tax haven complains about immigrants stealing benefits.
Why does she care? She ain’t paying for them.
And neither are you ‘paying
And neither are you ‘paying for them’. Immigrants are not a drain on an economy. They contribute far more in taxes than they take out. Demonising immigrants and preventing them from working is a drain in all of us.
Indeed.
Indeed.
The UK needs immigrants to make the system work, especially the Ponzi pensions system.
Net immigration last year was over 1 million, but let’s focus on the 40,000 arriving by small boats.
The sooner we vote out this cancerous government, the better.
Depends. You don’t have to
Depends. You don’t have to live here to pay tax here. Indeed a rich person who occasionally visits the UK might pay more UK tax than many people who live here do.
And a rich person who does
And a rich person who does live here but claims that they live overseas and only visit here can pay far less tax.
And cyclists who live here
And cyclists who live here don’t pay any road tax. And if a cyclist who lives here and pays no road tax rides through a red light and kills you, then you will no longer live here but may well have to pay inheritance tax.
Trust me: my estate will
Trust me: my estate will never reach levels where inheritance tax becomes due
john_smith wrote:
I’m no accountant but I’m fairly sure that you don’t have to pay inheritance tax after you’re dead, though your beneficiaries may have to. Even HMRC have yet, as far as I’m aware, to find a way to send their bills beyond the veil. I’m sure if they could they would…
If only it were the
If only it were the beneficiaries who were taxed, then it would be a lot fairer.
This is not a cycling story.
This is not a cycling story. It is perpetuating hate speech.
It’s certainly generating
It’s certainly generating plenty of hate.
How long until she claims her
How long until she claims her account was hacked?
Just imagine how
Just imagine how disappointing that would be. All that self-righteous anger for nothing.
“The plays were not in fact
“The plays were not in fact written by Shakespeare! No, it was another gentleman entirely, with the same name…”
isreal has been brutally
isreal has been brutally killing children for 6 months. Over 14000 children have been burnt, crushed, bombed, shot in the head, killed by missiles, tank shells, fighter jets. And now children are being starved to death. And these are children who were born to a life already under siege and occupation, who did not have freedom to travel and not even really have a voice as the occupier, Israel, has dehumanised Palestinians for decades to such an extent that nihilistic, genocidal propaganda like ‘all Gazans are guilty’ is normal.
They have been trying to
They have been trying to eradicate Hamas for the last 6 months. Based on their recent and historical actions and oft-repeated intent to kill all Jews, a reasonable objective except for those that support terrorist and Islamist causes. Like all wars, lots of civilians are killed especially in urban warfare. They have managed to kill less than in other recent conflicts in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Ethiopia despite a significantly more difficult environment. For some reason Israel are being denigrated more than when Western, Arab or African military offences cause major casualties.
You’re defending bombing
You’re defending bombing hospitals and refugee camps and starving children.
Dogless wrote:
Ah, but the terrorists build their invisible bases under those hospitals and refugee camps, and some of those children are just really short adult fighters.
Or something.
lycralout wrote:
eradicating Hamas is a laudibale goal. Achieving this goal by killing or driving out every palestinian in Gaza, is either genocide or doomed to fail. Any palestinians remaining after the current operation will be all to keen to join up to any organisation to oppose the Israeli government that has destroyed their homes and killed their relatives.
A permanant peace deal was on the table in 2000 at camp david, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat neary signed the deal.
Within months both Palestine and Israel had replaced these leaders with more hardline alternatives in elections and the potential for a peaceful solution disapeared.
I have trouble accepting either side as the innocent victim that would just live peacefully if not for the actions of the other
Odious ****!
Odious ****!
I would love to see the same
I would love to see the same level of protest against Bahrain Victorius and the UAE teams.