The 2018 winner has responded to his omission from the Tour de France and insisted he will be back on cycling’s biggest stage
Geraint Thomas has admitted that he struggled through lockdown to be ready for the 2020 Tour de France. The 2018 Tour winner and 2019 runner-up, left out of the Ineos Grenadiers team for this year’s race, said that he had found lockdown “tough going.”
“I’d won the biggest bike race you can win and it felt almost like I was going through the motions a bit,” he told the Guardian. “I need to be super ‘on’ it, to get to my Grand Tour competitive shape. That takes a lot of work. It doesn’t come naturally, especially the whole weight thing. So, I was just running a little heavy and it was more a case of getting on top of that. Six weeks of racing has really helped.”
