Carcasonne — Will Chris Froome attack Geraint Thomas, or will the defending champion support the current yellow jersey holder? That is the question on everyone’s lips as the Tour de France heads into its final week. But four-time champion Froome, who trails his fellow Briton by 1min 39sec before the race hits the Pyrenees, insisted on Monday that the pact of non-aggression would not be broken as Team Sky are focused on winning the Tour with one or the other leader. "All this talk of attacking or not attacking … we are in an amazing position, we are one and two," said Froome, who won the Tour in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. "It’s not up to us to be attacking. It’s for all the others to make up time on us and dislodge us from the position we’re in." Dutchman Tom Dumoulin and Slovenian Primoz Roglic are third and fourth overall, 1:50 and 2:38 off the pace, with France’s Romain Bardet and Spain’s Mikel Landa farther down but still a threat. The race could be decided in Wednesday’s 17th st...
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