- 2018 Tour winner finishes second in Giro d’Italia warm-up race
- Ineos Grenadiers struggling at Tour de France without Thomas
Dave Brailsford’s Tour de France selection gamble has backfired, as the 2018 winner of the Grande Boucle, Geraint Thomas, showed he was back to his best with second place overall in Italy’s prestigious Tirreno-Adriatico stage race, won by the 2018 Vuelta a España champion, Simon Yates, of Mitchelton-Scott.
“I was nervous of the situation,” said Yates, who went into the final time trial in San Benedetto del Tronto with a 39-second lead on Thomas. “I’m just really happy to pull it off.”
