Chris Froome is determined that his Tour de France title this year is just the start of a run of dominance in cycling&rsquo;s greatest race. <img alt="Chris Froome" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/jul/Chris-Froome_3.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 348px;" /> Tour de France winner Chris Froome celebrates on the podium on Sunday. PIC/Getty Images The 28-year-old barely gave his rivals a sniff during the 100th Tour, and has warned them he believes he has still to reach his peak. &ldquo;If I look at my career now and what my ambitions are as a pro cyclist, to come and target the Tour has got to be the biggest goal,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;To be able to do that year after year through your prime period, that has got to be what my main focus is on.&rdquo; This year&rsquo;s mountainous Tour route - criticised by some for being too tough as it deadened the yellow jersey battle in the final week, riders too exhausted to fight one another - suited Froome&rsquo;s climbingu00a0ability. But the man who finished second to Sir Bradley Wiggins in a support role on last year&rsquo;s flatter parcours is confident he can handle most things the Tour might throw at him. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to think I&rsquo;m well balanced,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I can time trial reasonably, I can climb pretty well, I can&rsquo;t see what else they can put in the Tour that I would struggle with so I&rsquo;d like to think I can come back every year. &ldquo;This success here has set an amazing platform for me. Going forward, everything I&rsquo;ve done building up to here, it really has been a massive learning experience as much as this Tour itself has been. &ldquo;It would be a shame not to carry that experience forward and use it in future editions.&rdquo; <h1 class="header_style4"> Kenya hails Froome, but regrets not their win</h1> Kenya, birthplace of Tour de France winner Chris Froome, celebrated his victory yesterday but expressed regret he chose to fly a British and not Kenyan flag on the podium. &ldquo;Why did we let him go? Now the glory goes to UK,&rdquo; wrote Allan Buluku in Kenya&rsquo;s Daily Nation newspaper.u00a0&ldquo;But no matter, he has done Kenya proud. Congratulations Froome, we salute you.&rdquo; The Tour champion spent his childhood learning to ride in Nairobi before moving to South Africa as a teenager. u00a0While many Kenyans bicycle, few do so competitively, and Froome was little known before his win.u00a0

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