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Geraint Thomas: Tour de France winner to retire from biking at finish of season
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Geraint Thomas: Tour de France winner to retire from biking at finish of season

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Geraint Thomas has introduced he’ll retire from biking on the finish of the season.

The 38-year-old introduced on Monday morning he will probably be bringing the curtain down on a profitable 19-year skilled profession, with British Biking saying September’s Tour of Britain will probably be his closing race.

Thomas claimed Olympic staff pursuit gold on the monitor at each Beijing 2008 and London 2012 earlier than occurring to win the Tour de France in 2018, changing into the third Briton and solely Welshman to win street biking’s largest race.

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“This year will be my final year racing my bike,” Thomas instructed his podcast, Geraint Thomas Biking Membership. “It is bizarre, it is all the time been at the back of my thoughts, the final 4 years I believed it would be my final, however it’s official, this will probably be my final yr.

“If you say it out loud, it is like, ‘blimey, in seven to eight months, it will be performed’. You’ll be able to’t do it endlessly; I am getting a number of gray hairs. I do not wish to do one too many. I do not wish to be the man on the bus who’s a little bit of a grumpy particular person.

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“I am nonetheless actually having fun with using my bike, and racing, the coaching and getting fitter, that is what I’ve beloved since I used to be 12. Going quicker and longer, that hasn’t modified or dwindled, because the years go by, however I do not wish to get to the stage the place I am like, ‘I ought to’ve stopped final yr, I do not wish to be right here anymore’.

“The main thing is the family, Macs (his son) will be six this year, which is bonkers. I’m glad I kept going this long that he’s enjoyed coming to races and will remember it. When I won the Tour, Macs was born a year later, I thought it’d be cool for him to be around then. Never would’ve thought I’d be on a Grand Tour podium three times after that.

“That is my nineteenth season, which is a very long time, I’ve blended it up and stored selection, which helps, using the monitor to begin with. May you do an additional yr? Commonwealth Video games subsequent yr? They’re simply on the monitor although, there isn’t any street. The timing is true.”

Geraint Thomas: Tour de France winner to retire from biking at finish of season
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Thomas (proper) defended Workforce GB’s staff pursuit gold at London 2012 alongside Ed Clancy (left), Steven Burke (second left) and Peter Kennaugh

Thomas, who represented Nice Britain at 4 Olympic Video games, was a part of the quartet who gained the staff pursuit gold on the 2008 video games in Beijing and helped defend the title 4 years later at London 2012.

In three Commonwealth Video games appearances representing Wales, Thomas secured bronze within the street time-trial earlier than successful gold within the street race at Glasgow 2014, in addition to taking bronze within the males’s factors race in 2006 and bronze within the street time-trial in 2022.

Geraint Thomas celebrates after confirming his victory in the Tour de France on stage 20
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Thomas gained the Tour de France in 2018

Thomas’ career-defining second was his impeccable Tour de France win in 2018 which noticed him change into the third British and solely Welsh bicycle owner to win the Tour de France.

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) within the 2019 New Yr Honours Record for companies to biking.

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