The Tour de France winner on overcoming frustration with Team Sky, meeting Messi and why he can’t wait for next year
Geraint Thomas has already told me about the night he and Lionel Messi met up in an underground car park and how it feels to have won the Tour de France. He has considered public suspicion of Team Sky and explained his long battle to be accepted as their leading rider in this year’s race ahead of Chris Froome. Thomas pauses briefly now and, stepping away from the whirlwind of the last four months, looks ahead.
“I’d love to win it again,” he says. “Each year’s different but I still feel I’m improving even though I’m 32. I still have the motivation and commitment where I think Brad Wiggins, once he’d won it [in 2012], didn’t have 100% motivation. I’ve still got the appetite. I enjoyed the whole race – not just the end.”
Written by Donald McRae
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/oct/30/geraint-thomas-tour-de-france under the title “Geraint Thomas: ‘Ideally, Froome would ride for me. But that’s not possible’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
