'I've not got many Tours left in me,' says Geraint Thomas, before smiling 'no, it's not the last'

As the roads of the Tour de France go up and down, so has Geraint Thomas' head, but it'll take more than that to break the Welshman's spirit

Geraint Thomas
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"My head was in a bucket," says Geraint Thomas, describing how he felt after stage eight of the Tour de France when his GC ambitions imploded, losing half an hour as he finally, totally, succumbed to the injuries sustained in a crash on stage three.

So downbeat was the Welshman in an interview with Velon that it was pulled almost as soon as it had been sent out. That night, Thomas slept on it, and returned to the start line of stage nine, overheard telling a rider as the peloton rolled out that he was still a bit sore.

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