The Welshman insists his recent fall in the Tour de Suisse will not affect his pursuit of a second yellow jersey
The video footage of Geraint Thomas sitting forlornly on the road, his face splattered with blood and his mind apparently dazed after a crash at the Tour de Suisse, appeared chilling. But as the 33-year-old Welshman prepares to begin his defence of his yellow jersey he insists that those images were misleading – and that he can defy the sceptics by bouncing back to retain his title.
Thomas, who will be Team Ineos’s joint leader alongside Egan Bernal when the Tour de France begins in Brussels on Saturday, admits the crash stopped him riding for three days. But he says he remained sitting on the ground afterwards out of frustration rather than anything more serious.
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