Geraint Thomas announced that it will retire from cycling at the end of the season.
The 38 -year -old boy announced that it would bring curtains to a 19 -year successful career on Monday morning, and the British cycling said the British tour would be his last race in September.
Thomas tracked the Olympic team at the 2018 BEIJING 2008 and London 2012, and won the 2018 Tour de France, becoming the third British and the only Wales in Road Cycling.
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Thomas told the podcast, “This year will be the last year to ride my bike.” Geraint Thomas Cycling Club. “It’s strange. It’s always behind my heart, and I thought the last four years was the last four years, but it was official. This will be last year.
“When speaking loudly, ‘Blimey, it will end after 7-8 months.’ Do too much work.
“I still enjoy riding a bike, racing, training, and healthier. It was what I loved since I was 12 years old. I don’t want to go to the stage that I had to stop last year and I should not want to be here anymore.
“The most important thing is family, Mac (his son) will be six years old this year. Bonkers. I’m glad that he continued to continue to come to the race and enjoy it. I would not have thought it would be at the Grand Tour podium after that.
“This is my 19th season. It’s a long time. I mixed it and maintained diversity. The track has no roads.”
Thomas defended Team GB’s team pursuit with Thomas (left), with Steven Burke and Peter Kennaug.
Thomas, who represented the UK in four Olympics, was a member of the quartet chasing Gold in Beijing in 2008 and helped defend the title in London 2012 four years later.
In the three Common Wells games representing Wales, Thomas won the bronze in the road trial, won the gold medal in the road race at Glasgo 2014, and won the bronze medal at the 2006 Men’s Point Race and the bronze medal in the 2022 road time revision. It took it. .
Thomas won the Tour de France in 2018
Thomas’ career definition moment was his triumph in his flawless tour de France in 2018, the third British and the only Wales Accollist he won in France.
He was appointed officers of the British Empire (OBE) on the Cycling Service in the 2019 New Year’s honor list.
