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Team Sky's Geraint Thomas becomes first Welshman to win Tour de France

The 32-year-old rider says he is "floating around on cloud nine" after his "incredible" victory in the three-week event.

By Sharon Marris, news reporter

Sunday 29 July 2018 23:06, UK

Team Sky's Geraint Thomas has won the Tour de France, becoming the first Welshman - and third Briton - to triumph in the race.

Thomas had a lead of one minute 51 seconds going into the final and mostly ceremonial stage, and he safely completed it on the Champs-Elysees.

Norwegian rider Alexander Kristoff with UAE Team Emirates won the 21st leg from Houilles to Paris after a sprint finish, narrowly beating John Degenkolb and Arnaud Demare.

Thomas's overall lead stayed the same on Sunday as Team Sunweb's Tom Dumoulin finished second, with Thomas's Team Sky teammate Chris Froome a further 33 seconds behind in third.

Thomas was on a yellow bike to match his yellow jersey and shared glasses of champagne with his teammates during the ride into Paris.

Four-time champion Froome crossed the line with Thomas and applauded him at the end of the three-week event.

Thomas, 32, joins Sir Bradley Wiggins and Froome as British winners of the prestigious sporting event, with the Team Sky trio claiming six of the last seven Tour titles.

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Thomas said: "I got into cycling because of this race.

"I remember running home from school to watch the end of the Tour de France and the dream was always just to be part of it and that came true back in 2007.

"Now I'm stood here in the yellow jersey and it's just insane.

"It's incredible and it's a dream come true.

"To be riding round (the Champs Elysees) and winning it, you've got to pinch yourself.

"It won't really sink in probably for a few months.

"Right now it's like a whirlwind.

"I seem to be floating around on cloud nine."

A journey through the career of the new Tour de France winner

Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford told Sky Sports News that the win had been "the most emotional of all our victories".

He added: "Geraint, growing up in Wales, worked so hard for such a long time - he's a classic 'make the sacrifice, it's worth it' kind of guy."

Thomas was not the pre-race favourite, nor was he the leader in his team, but he rode impressively for three weeks and pulled off two mountain wins.

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Growing up on the outskirts of Cardiff, he started cycling seriously at the age of 10 and was noticed around three years later by Rod Ellingworth, performance director at Team Sky.

Ellingworth said: "You could see straightaway he was just flying round the track, he was pretty good.

"As he joined the junior programme, you just knew he was going to be pretty talented."

In 2006, Thomas was the youngest member of the British pursuit team at the world championships; he won the Olympic gold medal alongside Wiggins in 2008; and in 2012, with a second gold medal in the same event, Thomas left track cycling to focus on road racing.

Thomas lives with his wife in Monaco, where he also trains, but he often returns to Cardiff to see friends and family.

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Thomas Is First Welshman To Win Cycling's Tour De France

July 30, 2018 / 6:59 AM CDT / CBS Texas

PARIS (CNN) -  History was made on the Champs-Elysees on Sunday as Geraint Thomas became the first Welshman to win cycling's Tour de France. Arm-in-arm with 2017 champion and Team Sky teammate Chris Froome, 32-year-old Thomas crossed the finish line in triumph after the 21st and final stage in Paris.

His eventual victory had been a mere formality after Saturday's individual time trial stage, which left him with a one minute 51 second advantage over second-placed Tom Dumoulin of the Netherlands. Four-time champion Froome completed the podium, having started the three-week Tour as race favorite.

Sunday's stage, which started in the Paris suburbs before eight high-speed laps of a circuit taking in iconic landmarks in the French capital, was won by Alexander Kristoff of Norway, the European champion.

But the spotlight was firmly on Thomas, so long in the shadows of teammates past and present, Bradley Wiggins, the first British winner of the famous race in 2012, then Froome.

His victory continued Team Sky's domination of the Tour de France, with its British riders claiming six of the last seven editions, much to the disquiet of the French sporting public, who have given Thomas, Froome and their teammates a mixed reception over the course of the three-week race.

Thomas, a two-time Olympic champion for Great Britain in track cycling before turning his full attention to the road, took it all in his stride and after dominating the mountain stages in the Alps with two superb victories, maintained his advantage in the Pyrenees and on the final time trial to hold off his closest rivals for the prized crown in cycling.]

"It's unbelievable, it's going to take a while to sink in," Thomas told Eurosport. "Riding around wearing [the yellow jersey] is the stuff of dreams." Thomas also paid tribute to his teammates, who had held strong in the face of a sometimes hostile environment.

"We have stuck together through tough times, I owe them a lot," Thomas added.

With Froome, bidding for a fourth straight Grand Tour win after claiming the Giro d'Italia, losing time following a crash early in the race, Thomas seized his chance to take the lead after Stage 11 and never relinquished his advantage. Froome's challenge finally petered out in the Pyrenees, and he was happy to play a support role as Thomas claimed his victory.

Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford was particularly pleased for Thomas, a rider he had known since his junior days. "We're just pretty emotional," he told Sky Sports News. "I think this has been the most emotional of all our victories.

Thomas is assured of a hero's welcome back home in Wales, now being feted like Real Madrid football star Gareth Bale, who went to the same high school in Cardiff.

Slovakia's Peter Sagan was unable to round off another fine Tour with a sprint victory, but sealed his record-equaling sixth Green Jersey, while French honor was upheld by Julian Alaphilippe, who won two stages to clinch the Polka Dot jersey for King of the Mountains.

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Geraint Thomas crowned Tour de France champion as Alexander Kristoff wins final stage in Paris

Thomas third Briton, and first Welshman, to win Tour

By Andy Charles

Monday 30 July 2018 08:45, UK

Geraint Thomas is Tour de France champion for the first time in his career after the final stage in Paris was won by Alexander Kristoff.

Thomas safely crossed the line alongside the rest of Team Sky on the Champs-Elysees a few seconds after the bunch sprint was won by Norwegian sprint star Kristoff.

There were no scares for Thomas on the largely processional final day, which started sedately and saw the Welshman enjoy a quick glass of champagne alongside his team-mates.

He finished the race alongside Chris Froome, who applauded Thomas over the line as he finished third overall after falling just short in his quest to win a fourth successive Tour title.

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The race crawled through the Paris suburbs until the usual crescendo over eight laps of the central Paris circuit passing landmarks like the Arc de Triomphe and Tuileries Gardens.

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Sylvain Chavanel, riding his 18th and final Tour before retiring, led the field into Paris but he soon fell back into the peloton as a six-man breakaway formed.

They were reeled in on the final lap but briefly it appeared there was going to be a shock result as Belgian champion Yves Lampaert made a daring late bid for glory.

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But Lampaert was caught in the closing 300m and it was Kristoff who produced the best sprint finish to win on the Champs-Elysees for the first time.

John Degenkolb finished second with former French champion Arnaud Demare filling third spot.

But it was all about Thomas on Sunday, with the Welshman becoming the sixth Team Sky winner of the Tour de France in the last seven years.

He joins Sir Bradley Wiggins (2012) and Chris Froome (2013 and 2015-17) in winning the season's most prestigious Grand Tour for Great Britain.

Stage 21 result

1. Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates 2:46:36 2. John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo same time 3. Arnaud Dmare (Fra) Groupama-FDJ same time 4. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Dimension Data same time 5. Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits same time 6. Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Quick-Step Floors same time 7. Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida same time 8. Peter Sagan (Svk) BORA-Hansgrohe same time 9. Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Wanty-Groupe Gobert same time 10. Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto-Soudal same time

General Classification

1. Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 83:17:13 2 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb +00:01:51 3 Chris Froome (GBr) Team Sky +00:02:24 4 Primoz Roglic (Slo) LottoNL-Jumbo +00:03:22 5 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo +00:06:08 6 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale +00:06:57 7 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team +00:07:37 8 Daniel Martin (Irl) UAE Team Emirates +00:09:05 9 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin +00:12:37 10 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team +00:14:18

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Geraint Thomas 'breaks duck' with first win since 2018 Tour de France

'I seem to have come into some good shape pretty soon' says Tour de Romandie winner

Geraint Thomas insisted he hadn’t put pressure on himself, but there was nevertheless a sense of relief as he clinched the Tour de Romandie title to win a bike race for the first time since he rolled into Paris as Tour de France champion in 2018.

The Welshman might well have raised his arms 24 hours previously, but he more than made up for that bizarre crash atop Thyon 2000 with a strong ride in the final time trial to divest Michael Woods (Israel Start-Up Nation) of the yellow jersey.

In doing so, he brought a curious barren spell to an end. It’s not like Thomas has been in the wilderness since he lifted the Tour trophy – indeed, he finished runner-up the following year – but he has struggled for momentum. 

He was anonymous for all of 2019 apart from that second place, and in 2020 he was so far off the pace he didn’t make Ineos’ squad for the Tour. He bounced back to finish second at Tirreno-Adriatico but crashed out of the autumn Giro d’Italia after hitting a stray bidon.

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"As we all know, bike racing is about winning," Thomas said. "It’s not like I haven’t performed since I won the Tour. I’ve been up there, but it’s nice to finally get the win and break that sort of duck.

"It's my first win since being a dad as well, so that's nice," he added.

Following the frustration of that Giro exit, the Tour de Romandie is the latest evidence that Thomas has hit a rich vein of early form in 2021, in stark contrast to last term. He wasn’t at his best at Tirreno-Adriatico but has certainly been close to it ever since, placing third behind two teammates at the Volta a Catalunya before arriving in Switzerland this week. 

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In the decisive stages he was second in the opening prologue and third in the final-day time trial, while his third place at the Thyon summit finish should have been better after he breezed clear of every rider but Woods on the long climb. 

"At the start of the year my goal was the Tour and every race was a build-up to it. I didn’t put any pressure on myself to perform early but I seem to have come into some good shape pretty soon," Thomas said. 

"I’ve had some good races building up to this - obviously Catalunya was really good for the team, and I was third behind two teammates which was amazing to be a part of." 

A similar scenario played out at Romandie, where he was part of a prologue podium sweep alongside Rohan Dennis and Richie Porte, and then part of a one-two on the final podium alongside Porte.

"Me and Richie came here wanting to win the race with one of us, and now we’re first and second, so can’t complain," he said.

"I knew was going well. I’ve done a lot of hard work, spent a lot of time away from the family. I really wanted to make it worthwhile, and I’ve certainly done that."

With the yellow jersey on his shoulders and a number one back on his palmarès, Thomas can start to look ahead to the Tour de France with increasing confidence. He'll head home for a break before an altitude camp in Tenerife ahead of the Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de France. 

"It's been a good year so far - every race I felt was getting better and better. All I can do is focus on what I'm doing and trying to continue to improve and go to the Tour in the best shape I can."

As for that crash, he already saw the funny side as he photoshopped himself scoring a try for Wales, but can now put it firmly in the past.

"I definitely wasn’t laughing the first hour or two after – I was pretty angry – but once it’s settled in, you’ve got to laugh at it really," Thomas said. 

"You either laugh or cry, and it’s a lot better to laugh, isn’t it."

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Patrick is an NCTJ-trained journalist, and former deputy editor of Cyclingnews, who has seven years’ experience covering professional cycling. He has a modern languages degree from Durham University and has been able to put it to some use in what is a multi-lingual sport, with a particular focus on French and Spanish-speaking riders. Away from cycling, Patrick spends most of his time playing or watching other forms of sport - football, tennis, trail running, darts, to name a few, but he draws the line at rugby.

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BAGNÈRES-DE-LUCHON, France (VN) — He loves Welsh rugby enough to stream the Six Nations rugby tournament to his phone every spring. His success in cycling has sprung, in part, from his ability to compartmentalize the stress of big moments. And, when the mood strikes him, Geraint Thomas delights in boozy late nights at the bar.

He is just four stages away from winning the Tour de France overall, an accolade that would make him the third British victor over the past six years. International cycling fans likely know Thomas, 33, for his worker-bee duties during Chris Froome’s four Tour victories. What is Thomas actually like off the bicycle? Over the past week, I have interviewed current and former teammates, coaches, and even family members to learn more about Thomas.

The portrait that has emerged is one of a gifted cyclist who actively creates balance between his lives inside and outside the pro peloton. Thomas follows the monk-like lifestyle required by his profession for much of the year. He also maintains a social life away from cycling, has interests away from the sport, and, when the time is right, indulges in legendary nights of partying.

“He loves to have a drink when it’s time to have a drink,” says his longtime coach, Rod Ellingworth, now the performance director at Team Sky.

“And there have been a few nights when we’ve had to hold him up after a few too many beers,” Ellingworth says. “Geraint likes to have a good balance in his life.”

Thomas says the balance is by design. A life outside of cycling helps him maintain a relaxed, even-keeled attitude at the races. It gives him the perspective he needs to understand and appreciate his place within the universe.

“I don’t get too stressed most of the time. Obviously, I really want to win but at the same time, it’s just a bike race,” Thomas said. “It’s not the be-all and end-all. It’s not like we’re going to Afghanistan or something. That is real-life stuff. We’re just really privileged to be in the position we’re in.”

Chasing balance

Thomas’s living arrangement reflects his split between the cycling world and the world outside the sport. For much of the year he and his wife, Sara Elen Thomas, live in Monaco, close to Chris Froome and his Sky teammates. Thomas trains long hours along the sun-kissed Mediterranean of Southern France and Northern Italy and spends much of his time with his teammates.

For the rest of the year, the couple returns to the Welsh port city of Cardiff, where they both grew up, met, and were married in 2015. In Cardiff, Thomas finds an opposing setup to his home in Monaco. He spends time with family and friends, most of whom are not connected to professional cycling.

When Thomas is on his bicycle, he embraces the numbers, training plans, and suffering. And when he’s off of it?

“He can turn the cycling world off,” Sara Thomas says. “He can come home and not talk about cycling all night. He can switch back and forth.”

Sara Thomas believes the roots of her husband’s dual lives come from his parents, who encouraged Thomas in cycling but maintained a hands-off approach to their son’s progression in the sport. Thomas took up racing at age 10, and immediately showed talent; by 14, British national team coaches had their eyes on him. By 17, he was one of the most accomplished junior racers in the country’s history. Thomas the cycling prodigy pursued the sport because he had a passion for it, not because it was his profession.

“His parents never pushed him with his cycling. It was like, ‘Do your best, it doesn’t matter if you win or lose,’” Sara Thomas says. “He kept on with the sport because he enjoyed it, not because there were people pushing him.”

[pullquote attrib=”Rod Ellingworth”]“You could see from the beginning that he had high mental capacity on him. He was different than the others.”[/pullquote]

Thomas joined Team GB as a teenager and trained under the tutelage of Ellingworth starting at the age of 17. By that age Thomas’s personal affinity for the sport helped him overcome some of the pitfalls that often derail young athletes, Ellingworth says. Thomas’s early career revolved around track cycling, where victory is often decided by a bobble or momentary lapse in concentration. Stress and nervousness courses through young track athletes, due to the sport’s emphasis on perfection.

Thomas, however, was somehow able to cut through the pre-race stress.

“You could see from the beginning that he had high mental capacity on him. He was different than the others,” Ellingworth said. “Some lads you have to teach them all of these off-the-bike skills to prepare them mentally. Geraint was really good at it.”

That cool attitude followed Thomas into the elite ranks. Rob Hayles, now a Eurosport commentator, was a member of Great Britain’s elite track team during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2006 Thomas joined the squad’s elite squad for the team pursuit at the world championships in Bordeaux. He was just 20, the youngest member of the squad. Novice elites often look to the older riders for guidance. Not Thomas. When the team did its morning warmups at the hotel, Thomas completed his ride on his own schedule.

“He did his own thing. He knew what he needed to do and didn’t feel like he had to copy what the older guys were doing,” Hayles said. “He was greener than green, his first time on the senior squad, but he had this knowledge and this confidence already. He was already world-class.”

Throwing down and throwing back

Thomas has not been shy to discuss his affinity for beers and nights out, and in a 2015 interview told British website cyclist.co.uk that “if I had to live like a monk 24/7 I would just crack.”

Hayles saw Thomas’s wild side during his early days on the national track team. After a February team training camp one year, the group went out for beers to socialize. Then still a youngster on the team, the quiet, serious Thomas blossomed into the life of the party.

“He became the leader, the big personality,” Hayles said. “He picked his moment — it’s like it’s that time of the year when I can have a drink—and he made the most of it. He was brilliant fun to be around.”

Teammate Wout Poels says the dynamic continues. “When he’s on the bike he is really, really on it,” Poels says. “When he is off the bike he goes quite crazy with fun.”

Thomas says he learned early in his career the limits of his party lifestyle. In 2005 he and some friends with the British Cycling Academy went out to the bars to watch the Champions League final to celebrate his 19th birthday. The group drank a few too many beers and missed their curfew. Ellingworth, who was in charge of the junior team, had to dish out a punishment.

[pullquote attrib=”Wout Poels”]”When he’s on the bike he is really really on it. When he is off the bike he goes quite crazy with fun.”[/pullquote]

“I banned him from racing the Welsh Grand Prix which he had won the year before,” Ellingworth said. “I knew he was desperate to ride it. It was the only big hit in Wales at the time. They all went out on the piss one night and kept the riders awake and I kept him from racing. He was gutted at the time.”

Grand tour leadership

Domestiques occasionally assume team leadership. Chris Froome took Sky’s reins from Bradley Wiggins after the 2012 Tour de France. Vincenzo Nibali rode in the service of Ivan Basso before taking the team lead. Even Nairo Quintana was originally a worker bee at the 2013 Tour de France for Alejandro Valverde .

Those within his orbit credit Thomas’s progression to his patience and longevity in the sport. He showed amazing talent at age 10, was a world champion at 17, and now, at 33, is simply capitalizing off of his talent, training, and longevity in the sport. Thomas took the yellow jersey at this year’s Tour de France by staying out of trouble in the first week, as various other leaders — Froome included — suffered through crashes, mechanicals, and other bad luck.

“He’s not an overnight sensation,” says former teammate Simon Gerrans. “He’s been working up to this for years.”

Thomas’s recent results at one-week stage races also speak to his progression as a stage racer. He never cracked the top-10 at the Tour de France while riding in service of Froome. But when given the chance to lead, Thomas often won.

“He’s quite an amazing rider,” Poels said. “If you see this year winning the [Critérium du] Dauphiné, and last year with Paris-Nice. I think that shows he’s a world-class rider.”

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Ellingworth said Thomas’s grand tour success is the result of his refocusing on his goals after the 2012 Olympics. From his junior years up until 2012, Thomas was solely focused on Olympic medals. After he won Olympic titles in the team pursuit in 2008 and 2012 Thomas refocused on the classics and grand tours.

“It’s that endurance and that workload. He’s really talented across many aspects of the sport,” Ellingworth says. “I think it’s just chipping away at it, to just up his game.”

Throughout this Tour de France Thomas has credited his race lead to a variety of factors. He has avoided pitfalls. He came into the Tour having skipped the Giro and instead built up with a more traditional June racing schedule.

And perhaps, Thomas is simply ready to win.

And should Thomas lose? Sara Thomas says it won’t be a big deal.

“Whatever happens, Geraint can deal with it,” she said.

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Geraint Thomas has 'improved in every area' since 2018 Tour de France win - INEOS director

Updated 22/07/2022 at 20:48 GMT

Geraint Thomas is better now than when he won the Tour de France four years ago, according to INEOS Grenadiers racing director Rod Ellingworth. The Welshman sits in a podium place with two stages remaining, but an eight-minute gap separates him from yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard. Nevertheless, Ellingworth believes the 36-year-old has shown improvement 'across the board'.

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'All I'm thinking about now is the Giro' - Thomas focused on first Grand Tour of the season

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‘It’s not like I lost it’: Geraint Thomas on the Giro, crashes and a last Olympic hurrah

The British rider talks about doubling up in the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France, and why cycling can do more in terms of safety

G eraint Thomas heads to the start of 2024’s first Grand Tour, the Giro d’Italia, determined to avenge the bitter tears of a year ago when he lost the race to Primoz Roglic in a dramatic final time trial . “It was a tough and challenging moment, but for me it wasn’t like I had a bad day or did anything drastically wrong,” he says.

“Roglic had a flyer and he deserved to win it. It’s not like I lost it – he won it. It was hard. You lead the Giro for half the race and then you lose by 15 seconds on the final day: it’s a tough one. But then as [the psychologist] Steve Peters would always say: ‘Life’s not fair. Get on with it.’”

Thomas has decided to race in the Giro, which starts in Turin next Saturday, and the Tour de France this summer. “I wanted to go back to the Giro after last year and the Tour is the Tour. In the back of my mind, I’d always thought: ‘Sod it, why don’t I just try to do both …?’”

Also in the back of his mind is one final hurrah in the Olympic Games . “I’d love to do one more Olympics, but I don’t want to go and just get another tracksuit,” he says. “I want to be good enough to be in with a shout of a medal. I’ve got four tracksuits already – I don’t need another one.”

First, though, comes the Giro and the prospect of trying to derail the seemingly unstoppable Tadej Pogacar , the dominant force this spring. “Pogacar is the massive favourite, but stranger things have happened,” Thomas says. “It’s three weeks – it’s different to any other race. Anyone can have a bad day.”

So can the wily seasoned pro derail the Pogacar express? “Possibly,” he replies, “but I’m not one to play mind games. I’ll be doing my thing – try to stay consistent, good and strong all the way through. He’s a racer and he just loves winning. When he retires he’s going to be one of the greatest of all time.”

Speaking as he puts the final touches to his pre-Giro race preparation at the Tour of the Alps, the Welsh rider, like most of his peers, has race safety on his mind after a series of bad crashes sidelined big names such as Jonas Vingegaard – the Tour de France winner in the past two years – Wout van Aert, Remco Evenepoel and Roglic.

“Everyone’s talking about this now because big-name riders have crashed, but it’s been happening for years,” he says. “Racing’s got that danger element already, but I feel like it could do so much more to increase safety. There’s road furniture, traffic calming, kerbs sticking out, all that kind of stuff. That adds an element of danger as well. When you’re in it, if I thought about it, I’d be at the back [of the peloton]. You wouldn’t be racing, you couldn’t do it.”

Thomas’s words prove prophetic. Only 48 hours later during the Tour of the Alps, the Australian rider Chris Harper crashed on a fast descent and slewed head first into an unprotected lamp-post. Fortunately the 29-year-old escaped with only superficial wounds and a concussion. “Ninety per cent of the guys won’t know the roads [in this race],” Thomas says. “You’re going down these descents, flying down them. If this was a new sport, there’s no way it would be allowed.’”

Thomas fully supports the public statement made by the Ineos Grenadiers owner, Jim Ratcliffe, who in mid-April issued a public plea for a ramping up of cycling’s safety protocols. “Cyclists are always going to push things to the limit as they are elite sportsmen,” Ratcliffe said, before urging David Lappartient, the president of the world governing body, the UCI, to “ensure the safety of the sport”.

Lappartient’s recent comments, that “50% of the crashes” are down to what he called the “attitude” of the riders do not sit well with Thomas, even if he acknowledges that some riders take risks he wouldn’t. “I think Lappartient needs to focus more on the 50% he can affect,” Thomas says. “I agree with what he says, but it just doesn’t make sense to me even saying it. That means 50% is still down to him and organisers to do everything they can.”

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Ratcliffe, meanwhile, may have big plans for Manchester United but Thomas says that another Tour de France victory is also on his mind. “Jim really wants to win the Tour,” he says. “Fair play – that is the ultimate and that’s what we’re trying to do. It might take a couple of years, but I still believe that this team can get back there.”

Thomas, a longstanding Arsenal fan, said he and Ratcliffe exchanged messages after the billionaire’s majority acquisition of United became a reality. “When the deal went through, he messaged me on Christmas Eve and said: ‘United’s happening.’ I was like: ‘Ah sweet – I hope you come a strong second to Arsenal.’ He just replied: ‘Ouch.’”

Thomas’s old team principal Sir David Brailsford, although dedicating much of his time to Ratcliffe’s Manchester project, remains in contact. “I get the impression he still massively misses the team,” Thomas says. “It’s his baby really – he started it.

“He’s still really passionate about the sport. He gives me a ring every now and then. He’s still involved but just has a lot of other things going on. It is kind of strange when you see Dave on Sky Sports sat next to Sir Alex Ferguson. But he loves it. He loves a big challenge. He goes all in.”

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As we grow nearer to Grand Tour season, the story is no doubt going to center around cycling’s two biggest names: Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard. Can Pog pull off the Giro/Tour double? If he’s going to, he’ll have to vanquish Vingegaard, the only rider who’s been able to go toe-to-toe with Pogačar. On the other side of the coin, can Vingegaard go three-for-three, becoming just the ninth rider to win at least three Tours (and the sixth to win three consecutively)?

But what about the other riders in the peloton who have a real chance at dethroning the two-headed monster? Surely there are more names to watch than just Pogi and Jonas, more riders who— like Sepp Kuss did in last year’s Vuelta —can shock the world by taking down the giants.

Here are the contenders primed to challenge cycling's dominant duo in the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France :

Remco Evenepoel

There’s no denying that Evenepoel is one of the most talented riders in the WorldTour ranks. And with a pair of Liège-Bastonge-Liège wins and a Vuelta win, he already has a palmarès that most riders dream of. But after a bitterly disappointing Giro abandonment last season and years of answering questions about when he’s going to race the Tour, the time may be here for Evenepoel to exorcize some of the demons and answer the questions that always seem to be following him around.

Yes, he’s won a Grand Tour, but it wasn’t the Grand Tour. Maybe 2024, his Tour debut, is the year to rectify that for and with his Soudal-Quick Step team.

Primož Roglič

With a new team in Bora-Hansgrohe, Roglič will once again be looking to avenge one of the most bitter losses in cycling history: to recapture the Tour de France win that he was just one heartbreaking stage away from in 2020.

That 2020 loss, combined with Vingegaard’s unexpected ascension, pushed Roglič to the fringes of the Grand Boucle. Now, he’ll head into France as the undisputed team leader. And while Roglič’s had a less-than-stellar season thus far, according to Bora’s performance director Rolf Aldag, all eyes are on the Tour for Roglič and his team.

Cian Uijtdebroeks

Just twenty years old, Ujitdebroeks is heading into the Giro with expectations that are simultaneously high and reasonable. Early reports are that the Visma-Lease a Bike all-rounder will be chasing both stage wins and the pink jersey.

Uijtdebroeks finished eighth in last summer’s Vuelta a España and none of the seven riders ahead of him are slated to start the Giro. Of course, it’ll help his cause that he’ll have Wout van Aert, perhaps the world’s greatest domestique, working for him throughout Italy.

Ben O’Connor

Last year, Ben O’Connor asked his French team, Decathlon-AS2R La Mondiale, if he could shift his focus from the Tour de France to the Giro d’Italia. After two consecutive Tours marred by crashes, sickness, and just plain bad luck, O’Connor is hoping to right his ship with a go at the pink jersey.

To the surprise of many, AG2R acquiesced and, as O’Connor has the most WorldTour points of any Giro entrants as of this writing, early returns say they may have made the right move.

Geraint Thomas

Like Pogačar, Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas is targeting the Giro/Tour double. He’ll be the team’s sole GC hunter in Italy, as he aims to avenge the pink jersey he lost to Primož Roglič on the penultimate stage of last year’s Giro.

The picture in France gets a bit murkier, as Ineos will be sending Tom Pidcock and Carlos Rodríguez both to the start line in June, making Thomas’s hunt for a second yellow jersey—he won the Tour 2018—a far less straightforward proposition.

Alexsandr Vlasov

The 27-year-old Bora-Hansgrohe rider raised plenty of eyebrows at the dawn of this season when he said he would let the road decide whether he would race for or against his new teammate—and presumed team leader—Primož Roglič.

Well, the reality of that statement might come to a head sooner rather than later. Vlasov has been looking strong this spring, with his most eye-catching performance coming in Paris-Nice, where he finished fifth overall, seventh in the points classification, and fourth in the KOM race. Roglič, on the other hand, finished that race tenth, eleventh, and tenth in those very same classifications.

Simon Yates

Whereas so many riders are bolstered by hype, Simon Yates’s chances for a surprise Tour victory are supported by the fact that he just always seems to be there, near the front, toe-to-toe with the best and the brightest. The Jayco-AlUla leader, who finished fourth overall in 2023, will be making his seventh Tour appearance, so he knows the race as well as just about any of the other contenders. But more than anything, he’ll likely need a few breaks to roll his way.

Jai Hindley

The 2022 Giro champion is expected to ride in support of Roglič in the Tour. But we all know how mercurial Roglič can be, which means Hindley may be presented with a sudden and unexpected chance to fight for the yellow jersey.

Sepp Kuss, Juan Ayuso, and Adam Yates

I’m combining these three, as their longshot potential to make a run at GC would depend on Vingeaard and/or Pogačar blowing up or abandoning, neither of which either does very often. Kuss has shown that he has the strength and the grit to win a Grand Tour, but his shot at the yellow jersey would wholly depend on whether or not Vingegaard is at or near the front.

The same goes for Ayuso and Yates, who will both ride in support of Pogačar this summer. Yates finished third in last year’s Tour, proving that he’s much more than just another domestique. Meanwhile, all signs have been pointing to UAE Team Emirates grooming the 21-year-old Ayuso to be something of a 1A to Pogačar.

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Tour of Romandie win is career-best title for Carlos Rodriguez through rain-slicked final stage

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VERNIER, Switzerland (AP) — Carlos Rodriguez protected his yellow jersey through a rain-soaked final stage Sunday to win the six-day Tour of Romandie for the biggest race victory of his career.

Four previous winners in the French-speaking region of Switzerland went on to win that season's Tour de France, including Chris Froome in 2013. Rodriguez placed fifth in cycling's marquee event last year and won a stage.

Rodriguez started Sunday's flat stage that looped round the suburbs of Geneva — won in a sprint finish by Dorian Godon — with a seven-second lead he took by placing third in a mountain stage Saturday.

The 23-year-old Ineos Grenadiers rider kept that winning margin over runner-up Aleksandr Vlasov, the 2022 Romandie winner. Third-placed Florian Lipowitz was third, trailing Rodriquez by nine seconds.

Godon sealed his second stage win this week, edging Simone Consonni with Dion Smith third.

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Pogačar beats Van der Poel in a dominant win at Liège–Bastogne–Liège classic

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar of the UAE Emirates team crosses the finish line to win the Belgian cycling classic and UCI World Tour race Liege Bastogne Liege, in Liege, Belgium, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar of the UAE Emirates team after crossing the finish line to win the Belgian cycling classic and UCI World Tour race Liege Bastogne Liege, in Liege, Belgium, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

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LIEGE, Belgium (AP) — Tadej Pogačar proved too strong for Mathieu Van der Poel as he won the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycling classic with a solo breakaway on Sunday.

Pogačar attacked 35 kilometers (22 miles) out to win cycling’s oldest classic for the second time, after victory in 2021, and made up for last year when he broke his left wrist in a crash.

“I’m happy that I can finally win this race again,” the 25-year-old Slovenian said. “It’s beautiful to finish like this.”

The two-time Tour de France champion waved to the crowd as he approached the finish line well clear. French veteran Romain Bardet finished second and Van der Poel led a mass sprint to the line to finish third.

Liège–Bastogne–Liège is one of the five “monuments” in one-day cycling with the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, the Tour of Lombardy and Milan-San Remo. Van der Poel won Roubaix two weeks ago but has not won Liège and Lombardy.

Pogačar beat Van der Poel last year to win the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) and they have won six monuments each.

The 254.5-kilometer (157.8-mile) trek, starting and finishing in the eastern Belgian city of Liège in chilly conditions, featured 11 small hills and played to Pogačar’s elite climbing skills. He pulled ahead in a small group with Van der Poel one minute behind.

Van der Poel’s group caught Pogačar with 70 kilometers remaining to form a main peloton. But with Pogačar’s UAE Team Emirates setting a fast tempo at the front, Pogačar attacked again and no rival could catch him.

He clocked 6 hours, 13 minutes, 48 seconds with Bardet 1:39 behind and Van der Poel 2:02 back.

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Rodriguez wins Tour de Romandie as Godon edges final stage

Leysin (Switzerland) (AFP) – Ineos Grenadier rider Carlos Rodriguez won the Tour de Romandie on Sunday as Dorian Godon took the sprint in the fifth and final stage in Vernier, near Geneva.

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It marked a first World Tour stage race victory for the 23-year-old Spaniard who finished seven seconds ahead of Alexandre Vlasov in the general classification.

The Russian was a further two seconds clear of German rookie Florian Lipowitz, his Bora teammate.

Rodriguez took the overall lead when he finished third in Saturday's mountainous 'queen' stage and had little difficulty in maintaining it in the straightforward 150.8km final stage.

He was content to stay in the peloton, surrounded by his Ineos team-mates, including Colombian Egan Bernal.

Rodriguez showed his potential last year by winning a mountain stage of the Tour de France in Morzine and then finishing fifth overall in Paris on his first appearance.

In early form this season, he won the final stage of the Tour of the Basque Country three weeks ago and took second place overall.

Sunday provided a second stage win of the race for French rider Godon (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale), who had already won the opener on Wednesday.

"Cycling is all about spirals and confidence," the 27-year-old told L'Equipe. "My team-mates did a great job for me."

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Tour of Romandie win is career-best title for Carlos Rodriguez through rain-slicked final stage

The winner of the Tour de Romandie, Carlos Rodriguez, right, from Spain of team Ineos Grenadier, celebrates on the podium after the fifth and final stage, a 150,8 km race between Vernier and Vernier at the 77th Tour de Romandie UCI World Tour Cycling race, in Vernier near Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Jean-Christophe Bott]

VERNIER, Switzerland (AP) — Carlos Rodriguez has protected his yellow jersey through a rain-soaked final stage to win the six-day Tour of Romandie. It’s the 23-year-old Spaniard’s biggest race victory of his career. Four previous winners in the French-speaking region of Switzerland went on to win that season’s Tour de France, including Chris Froome in 2013. Rodriguez placed fifth in cycling’s marquee event last year. Sunday’s final stage was won in a sprint finish by Dorian Godon. Rodriguez started the flat stage looping round the suburbs of Geneva with a seven-second lead that he maintained over Aleksandr Vlasov.

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