The remarkable career of a cycling all-rounder whose innate talent has taken him to Tour de France triumph
It is 11 years and one month since a chubby-faced Welsh youth stood on London’s Tower Bridge marvelling, along with a slightly less chubby-faced Manx youth, at the fact that they were both about to make their debuts in the Tour de France. Both Mark Cavendish and Geraint Thomas were products of the legendary British Cycling academy in Manchester, run by the plain-speaking coach Rod Ellingworth, who moved with Thomas to Team Sky in 2010, where the pair have remained ever since. Thomas’s Tour victory on Sunday marks another high point for Ellingworth’s protégés.
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Written by William Fotheringham
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jul/29/geraint-thomas-tour-de-france-selfless-rise-champs-elysees-wales under the title “From Wales to the Champs-Élysées: the selfless rise of Geraint Thomas | William Fotheringham”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
