Giro d’Italia director urges Chris Froome to ride next year's race and try and make history

Only if it is on iTV4 please. [David Mitchell mode] Well it isn't one season is it if it is over two years... Although if Serena and Novak can do it. I guess the winter lay off allows him to give it a try but I doubt it is worth compromising Le Tour.

If Landa was still a part of Team Sky, than I suggest Froome would be on his way to the Giro (and Landa to the Tour)... but Sky needs to justify their budget, and the Tour is where they get their exposure and return on investment. Would the prospect of a '12 month Grand Slam' out weigh a tilt at another Tour.

When Tinkoff suggested the big three GC do them in the same year it was widely derided. Given the contenders now, it would be even more ridiculous.

Maybe he should just go Yorkshire, Giro, TdF, ToB, Vuelta to keep everyone happy*

* It's a joke.

Dear Sir,

Please compete in my race as it will bring in more viewers and money

As a few others have said, I don't think this is feasible with the likes of Dumoulin, the Yates twins + Chavez, Ritchie Porte (if he can get one lucky year) Quintana, Lopez, Aru, Bardet, a potentially resurgent Uran, Mikel Landa now a rival, Pinot, Nibali and probably another 3 or 4 riders who have come on hugely the past two seasons, yes some of them are unproven when it comes to the form needed for a whole tour, but the problem now is it'd only take a couple of them to target one of the three specifically and Froome would be fighting fires all race and I don't think Sky would be able to look after him to the extent they're usually able to for three grand tours.

I'm hoping he targets the Tour specifically along with Dumoulin, the two of them fighting it out could be great (or could be a really dull stalemate) depending on how Dumouling progresses I think Froome may still have the edge, especially if he's going for jst the Tour as he's probably closer to Dumoulin in timetrialling than Dumoulin is to Froome's climbing, but it'd be close and only needs a little bit of a bad day to change it all around.

If they want to keep doping out of the sport, trying to encourage riders to do more and more impossible feats should be discouraged, the temptation to get a little extra help (maybe not the star rider but having more and more super domestiques) would become greater.

Given how tight performance levels are  at the top of cycling these days, and its unrealistic for an undoped rider to stay at peak form for 5 months, so for Sky to contemplate Chris winning all three races they would have to secure, dominate and control all three races even more so than they did this year (to make the "non-critical" race days as easy as possible for Chris). I'm a big fan of Sky but I'm not sure I would want them turning 3 x three weeks of racing into only 3 x two interesting days...

Also hoping the Yates brothers can deliver some more competition on the GT front this year - they seem agonisingly close

Sod off fat boy, my turn next.

Possibly, I just think 3 in a row is massive, 3 in the calendar year even better and don't really care on the configuration. I got last year how they suggested the double was trickier since the move, but surely any hat-trick is worthy regardless...

Why do people keep referring to the modern calendar? It was important when he was going for the Vuelta, I get that, but does it really matter if we're talking about the treble?

Maybe if all three grand tours had chosen to include long time trials, this might have been possible for Froome. I use the past tense because that only would've worked before Tom Dumoulin became the rider he is today. Now, while Froome can certainly beat him at one race (and hopefully it'll make for a fascinating Tour de France next year) I reckon there's no chance he could try for all three and expect to beat Dumoulin targeting just one. Froome could target the Giro, and be the holder of all three for a brief period, but even the Giro-Tour double would be a doubtful prospect given that, in reality, Vegni and Prudhomme aren't going to conspire to design a perfect pair of courses for him.

2 x 45km tts, 50km ttt, nothing above 15%, 10 man teams, come on giro, don't talk tempt! 

Talk of winning all three in ones season is silly but there's nothing stopping him from winning a consecutive grand slam; 2017 Tour and Vuelta, 2018 Giro. 

But he's got his sights on a 5th Tour, his preparation each year for the Tour is meticulous, reckon it will be even more so next year. Pity, I'd love to see him win a Giro.

Now, that would be amazing!