Mathieu Warnier, Media365: published on Wednesday December 25, 2024 at 10:00 p.m.
While the 2025 season will be the last of his professional career, Geraint Thomas has expressed his desire to compete in the Tour de France one last time next summer.
Geraint Thomas prepares his farewell tour. Arriving at the start of the 2010 season within the Sky team, now called Ineos Grenadiers, after having made his professional debut with Barloworld between 2007 and 2009, the Welsh rider will bow out at the end of the 2025 season and intends to participate one last time in the main races of the cycling calendar. During an exchange with his teammate Michal Kwiatkowski in a video published by their team this Tuesday, the man nicknamed “G” confirmed his intention to start his year on Australian roads during the Tour Down Under . “For me, this is the best place to start,” said the former two-time Olympic track team pursuit champion. You have a month or five weeks with regular training and good weather, it's ideal. » After this start in the Antipodes, it is through Portugal that Geraint Thomas intends to launch a sequence dedicated to one-week races. “I will come back for the Algarve, then some stage races, Tirreno-Adriatico, Catalonia,” he said.
Thomas rules out classics, not stage races
But, while he has already shone in the classics, notably with success during the E3 Grand Prix in 2025, the Welshman assures that he no longer has what it takes to face such events. “The classics have become too crazy for me now, I think,” he said. You have to be ready to fall, and I'm not sure I have the mentality for that anymore. » But, Geraint Thomas cannot consider leaving the professional peloton without getting in shape to say goodbye to the event which allowed him to shine, particularly in 2018. “On the other hand, I will still race in stage races. I would love to do one last Tour de France, said the Cardiff native during this exchange. Maybe the Tour of Britain to finish it off. » But the one who climbed on each of the steps of the podium of the Grande Boucle will have to wait for the verdict of the management of the Ineos Grenadiers team to know if he will be able to achieve his objective, he who demonstrated on the last two editions of the Giro that he could have a card to play in a three-week race.
