Tour de France 2018: Geraint Thomas rides into Paris on final day – live!

• Live updates as the Welshman makes his way to the Champs-Élysées
• Geraint Thomas defies old habits to stay mellow in yellow until end
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4.00pm BST

Gareth Bale famously went to the same school as Geraint Thomas:

@Simon_Burnton Not sure G can confidently claim to be greatest sportsman produced by his school, let alone greatest Welsh sportsman ever.

3.58pm BST

Thanks to Paul Griffin for pointing me towards this thread, with a bit of Welsh cycling history. “It’s about a stubborn and reading-between-the-lines bloody awkward gentleman who it seems prevented the Cardiff velodrome where the Thomas journey began being demolished to make way for a supermarket,” he writes. “All over the country, men and women give their free time to make rather barren-looking velodromes fun, safe, and the first step on the path to great and not so great cycling achievements, and its lovely to see that selflessness rewarded. (Obviously it’s marginally more inconvenient to buy two-for-one own-brand yoghurt in the welsh capital as a result but I think we can live with that)”

Watching @GeraintThomas86 and @LukeRowe1990 at this year’s Tour de France brings me immense pride not only as a Welshman, but also a Hodge. Not many will know, but both – in some way – are linked to a truly magnificent Hodge, my grandad Eric (thread)

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