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Geraint Thomas poised to win Tour de France after storming time trial

Team Sky set to win race for sixth time in seven years - and Chris Froome gets back on the podium too
by Simon_MacMichael
Sat, Jul 28, 2018 16:17
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Barring misfortune on the way into Paris tomorrow, Geraint Thomas will stand on the top step of the Champs-Elysees podium tomorrow as the first Welsh winner of the Tour de France aster riding a storming individual time trial in the French Basque Country tomorrow.

The 32 year old is posed to seal Team Sky's sixth victory in seven years, and has ridden in four of those editions in support of Chris Froome, who rode a terrific race today to get back into third overall above Primoz Roglic of LottoNL-Jumbo, clearly sufferingf the after-effects of yesterday's stage win.

Froome was unable to make headway on second overall Tom Dumoulin of Team Sunweb, who edged him out by 1 second to take the stage win, with Thomas a further 14 seconds back in thiord place.

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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Pitbull Steelers | 5 years ago
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Chuffed to bits for both Thomas and Froome. 

Thomas was a deserved winner of the tour and after his 4th Grand Tour in a row Froome was just the ultimate super domestique for him. Well done to both and all of Team Sky laugh

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darnac | 5 years ago
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French TV gave "service minimum" to Froome's extraordinary TT effort and not too much more to Thomas. The after-Tour programme concentrated on Alaphilippe and Roman Bardet - with no real questioning why he's getting less and less capable of a T de F win. Delighted for Thomas who I honestly didn't believe could do it. Let's hope the podium ceremonies aren't spoiled by stupid booing. Roglic the revelation of the Tour for me - Thomas Voeckler suggested that his relatively weak TT performance was caused by the mental stress of being so close to the podium plus fatigue from the efforts of the day before.

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Beecho | 5 years ago
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Was impressed with the Basque crowd. Come on Parisiennes, you can do it, show the Welsh dude some respect.

3rd place will get verbals.

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Yorkshire wallet | 5 years ago
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Amazing journey for Thomas, patience as super dom paid off unlike guys like Landa. 

Hopefully the booing can stop tomorrow. Don't really want to see the achievement of lifetime ruined by idiots. 

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BehindTheBikesheds | 5 years ago
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Apparently Froome's time was incorrect as a police officer stood on the finish line before Froome had actually finished.

It would seem this occured more than once given the various discrepencies during the the day. What a fuck up.

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Nick T replied to BehindTheBikesheds | 5 years ago
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BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

Apparently Froome's time was incorrect as a police officer stood on the finish line before Froome had actually finished.

Was he trying to make up for knocking him over on the way down after stage 16

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don simon fbpe | 5 years ago
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Haven't watched it yet, but heard the result at work.

Well done Geraint, keeping the flag flying for the nation (even if you are just a Taff!).

EDIT: Watched it now and yet another incredible ride from Froomedog. What can I say? He looked fucked yesterday and pulls one out of the bag today, he could have got his 4th consecutive Grand Tour.

Geraint Thomas, the first British winner of the Tour de France who was born on the island and he's a fucking Taff...

Cymru Am Byth!

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BehindTheBikesheds | 5 years ago
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Well done to Thomas, he's now Wales' second greatest cyclist. Shame that Froome was seemingly robbed of the stage win, that computer timing showed he took it by just under two seconds and yet TD gets it by 1s, a three second swing, WTF?

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mike the bike replied to BehindTheBikesheds | 5 years ago
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BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

Well done to Thomas, he's now Wales' second greatest cyclist. Shame that Froome was seemingly robbed of the stage win, that computer timing showed he took it by just under two seconds and yet TD gets it by 1s, a three second swing, WTF?

 

Surely you know that Einstein postulated that time is not a fixed entity and, it would seem, French time is more flexible than most.

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nortonpdj replied to BehindTheBikesheds | 5 years ago
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BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

Well done to Thomas, he's now Wales' second greatest cyclist. Shame that Froome was seemingly robbed of the stage win, that computer timing showed he took it by just under two seconds and yet TD gets it by 1s, a three second swing, WTF?

 

The time you see on your tv screen is courtesy of France Television.

The official time is from the transponder on the bike.

There are sometimes small differences. You may have noticed them also in the split times along the route.

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Beecho | 5 years ago
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I just shed a tear. Amazing day. Made up for G. Great TT from Froome and nice to see Tom D so thrilled with the win.

Watched the whole thing live and will watch the highlights too (OK, am laid up post appendix removal, but still...)

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