With a first Tour de France win out of the way, Geraint Thomas will show us in the next few months whether he is a ticker or an accumulator. Some athletes tend to achieve a single goal – ticking a particular box – then move on to something else, the best recent example at the Tour being Sir Bradley Wiggins who won the yellow jersey, then added a world time trial title, an Hour Record, an attempt at a one-day Classic, and finally one last Olympic gold medal. Accumulators have an appetite for repeating their feats, troubling the record books as they do so, the obvious current model being Chris Froome.
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Written by William Fotheringham
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jul/30/geraint-thomas-tour-de-france-chris-froome under the title “Will Geraint Thomas’s Tour de France win spark thirst for more success?”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
