Geraint Thomas targets one final Tour de France begin in his closing racing season
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Geraint Thomas has outlined his plans for the upcoming 2025 season, which is about to be his closing yr within the professional peloton.
The 38-year-old Welshman will retire on the finish of the season after 18 years of racing at Barloworld and Ineos. Talking to his teammate Michał Kwiatkowski at pre-season coaching camp, he mentioned that his 2025 might be focussed on stage racing, beginning with the Tour Down Underneath.
“Beginning down below, it’s going to be my tenth Tour Down Underneath,” Thomas mentioned in a ‘behind-the-scenes’ video from Ineos’ pre-season coaching camp in Spain.
“For me, it is the perfect place to begin, you will have a month or 5 weeks down there with constant coaching and good climate – it is splendid.
“Come again, I believe for the time being Algarve then a number of stage races – Tirreno-Adriatico, Catalunya.”
As soon as upon a time, Thomas was a significant spring Classics contender, profitable the E3 Harelbeke and taking high 10s on the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. Nonetheless, he will not be returning to the cobbles subsequent April.
“The Classics are simply too loopy for me now, I believe,” he mentioned “You have to be ready to crash. I am unsure I’ve obtained the minerals for that anymore.”
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As a substitute, after taking over quite a few stage races via the spring, Thomas mentioned that he is hoping to race one closing Tour de France in what could be his 14th outing on the race he received in 2018.
And in what could be the closing race of his storied profession, the Tour of Britain could be on the calendar in early September.
“Extra stage races. I might like to do yet one more Tour. Possibly the Tour of Britain to complete all of it off,” Thomas mentioned.
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