Geraint Thomas’ performance remains very high a decade later
I have wanted to write this article about Geraint Thomas for a long time.
I don’t know if he will be at the Tour or not, where everything seems to indicate that Pidcock will not think much about Carlos Rodríguez, but at this moment of impasse, looking at Florence, but with days in between, it is good to put the figure of the Welshman into context.
Always excellent pistard, Geraint Thomas was with Team Sky from the startwhen he entered cycling like an elephant through Wiggins, Rowe, Boasson Hagen and even Flecha himself, who retired more than ten years ago.
In this time G has been growing in the structure and has touched all the keys with mastery and professionalism.
He has performed in many tablaos and has been excellent in all of them.
He does not ignore his obligation to Team GB in the pursuit quartet at London 2012.
He then became one of the world’s top classics riders, competing with Peter Sagan, Nikki Terpstra, Greg Van Avermaet and Zdenek Stybar, among others.
Mind you, not even ten years have passed since then.
While G was a trusted man during Chris Froome’s best years in the Tour, even knowing how to show his support from time to time, like that time he wore yellow in the prologue.
Always between Froome, or with Wiggins and Cavendish, Geraint Thomas knew how to make his way to winning the Tour de France itself, in a very strange edition for Team Sky because I don’t know to what extent the plan was another, for Froome to try to win his fifth Tour.
Luckily for the English they did not burn G’s letter, because the best Tom Dumoulin slipped in between them.
In any case, what we are talking about is that Geraint Thomas, with number one on his back, watched as Egan Bernal gave Ineos his first Tour.
Keep an eye on the gallery of names dancing around Geraint, from Cav and Wiggins to Bernal.
With everything, Welsh has always been there, always present, until this same Giro, with another podium, the second consecutive in Italy.
Watching Cav burn his ships and good years of life in his 35th victory in the Tour, Froome suffering for the race he competes in and Wiggins, with his vital problems, we can say that nobody has aged like Geraint.
2024-07-01 16:15:37
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