Michael Woods says he will apologise to Geraint Thomas for Tour de France crash

A photo taken just after the start of stage nine shows the Canadian talking to the Welshman

Michael Woods talking to Geraint Thomas during stage nine of the Tour de France 2019 (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

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Michael Woods (EF Education First) plans to apologise to Geraint Thomas (Ineos) for causing him to crash in stage eight of the Tour de France 2019 to Saint-Étienne, with a photo taken after the start of stage nine showing the Canadian speaking to the Welshman.

Woods fell on a right-hand corner with 15km to race, Gianni Moscon then crashed into him and defending Tour champion Thomas ploughed into his Italian team-mate.

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Gregor Brown