Geraint Thomas: Tour de France winner to withdraw from cycling at the end of the season | Cycling news
Geraint Thomas announced that he would withdraw from cycling at the end of the season.
The 38-year-old double Olympic gold medal, which won the Tour de France in 2018, will overthrow a career curtain after 19 years as a professional.
“This year will be my last year of running my bike,” Thomas told his subcasta, Geraint Thomas Cycling Club. “It’s weird, it’s always in my head. The last four years I thought it would be the last, but it’s official, this will be my last year.
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“When you say it aloud, it is:” Blimey, in seven to eight months, it will be done. “You can’t do it forever; I get a few gray hairs. I don’t want to do it too much.
“I still enjoy driving with bikes and races, training and putting, I loved it since I was 12. Passing faster and longer, it didn’t change or decreased, as the years go by, but I don’t want to come to a stage where I am like: “I should have stopped last year, I don’t want to be here anymore.”
“The main thing is the family, Macs (his son) will be six this year, which is Bonkers. I’m glad I’ve been enjoying the races for so long and I will remember. When I won the tour, Macs was born A year later, I thought it would be okay for it to be around then.
“This is my 19th season, which has been a long time, I mixed it and retained the variety, which helps, riding the path to start. Can you make an extra year? Commonwealth game next year? They are just on the trail, however, there is no way.
