{"id":166581,"date":"2018-07-30T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=166581"},"modified":"2018-07-30T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T10:38:00","slug":"geraint-thomas-wins-the-2018-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/07\/30\/geraint-thomas-wins-the-2018-tour-de-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Geraint Thomas Wins the 2018 Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Emotional victory for Thomas.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tears of joy were cried after the finish of stage 20, and yesterday\u2019s finale in Paris was no less emotional for Geraint Tomas. Arriving safely in a bunch after Kristoff won the final sprint, he could hardly believe his luck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_166583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166583\" style=\"width: 1250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/07\/profimedia-0380086602.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166583\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/07\/profimedia-0380086602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1250\" height=\"831\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geraint Thomas and his wife celebrate after the last stage of the 105th edition of the Tour de France\u00a0\u00a9 Profimedia, Zuma Press &#8211; News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a whirlwind. Obviously crossing the line there was massive emotion,\u201d Thomas said after stage 20. \u201cHearing the stories of what it\u2019s like back in Wales. I\u2019ve stayed in the bubble so I\u2019ve no idea. It\u2019s insane. I didn\u2019t know my wife was here either, which kind of made it worse. It was just about doing all the small things right. Then the wall came falling down. Welling up every time I hugged anyone or talked about it. It\u2019s incredible to be here with this jersey. It\u2019s insane. Big thanks to Froomey as well because he committed to me. I appreciate having probably the best stage race rider ever riding for me. It\u2019s surreal. It\u2019s going to take a while to sink in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team Sky faced punches, spits and boos along the way to Paris, but Chris Froome believes that it only made them stronger.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for the amazing support over the last 3 weeks!  <br \/>It has been full of ups and downs but I couldn\u2019t have asked to spend it with a better team of people.<br \/>And to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeraintThomas86?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GeraintThomas86<\/a> there is no one more deserving. Congrats champ \ud83d\udc4a \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc77\udb40\udc6c\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc7f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TDF2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TDF2018<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ayxlFvmg5z\">pic.twitter.com\/ayxlFvmg5z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Froome (@chrisfroome) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisfroome\/status\/1023672491657621506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think when there is negativity like that, it brings us as a team closer together, I definitely feel that with the riders,\u201d Froome said. \u201cWe bonded and it felt as if we were out against the rest of the world and we were here to win the race. It\u2019s amazing. G pulled through. It\u2019s been more difficult than it was previously, and Geraint handled being in the yellow jersey extremely well. I think it\u2019s if you choose to let it get to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only Tom Dumoulin was able to squeeze himself between Froome and Thomas. And though he still has to wait for his Le Tour triumph, he wasn\u2019t too unhappy about it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_166584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166584\" style=\"width: 1250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/07\/profimedia-0380086604.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166584\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/07\/profimedia-0380086604.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Profimedia, Zuma Press &#8211; News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBeing second in the Tour de France is already an achievement in my eyes,\u201d the Dutchman said. \u201cBut of course, I\u2019d like to go for a win one day, but then we just have to look at what\u2019s possible and how to improve. No one expected me to do so well, including myself, in this Tour de France. We also didn\u2019t have an eye on the podium, we were just going for it, of course we were fighting for the GC, that was a goal, but we have to look at doing better in the next years.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Final general classification<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>1 Geraint Thomas (Team Sky), in 83:17:13<br \/>\n2 Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb), at 1:51<br \/>\n3 Chris Froome (Team Sky), at 2:54<br \/>\n4 Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d (LottoNL-Jumbo), at 3:22<br \/>\n5 Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo), at 6:08<br \/>\n6 Romain Bardet (Ag2r La Mondiale), at 6:57<br \/>\n7 Mikel Landa (Movistar Team), at 7:37<br \/>\n8 Daniel Martin (UAE Team Emirates), at 9:05<br \/>\n9 Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha-Alpecin), at 12:37<br \/>\n10 Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team), at 14:18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emotional victory for Thomas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":166582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[425,1080,829,433,2064],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-166581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-chris-froome","tag-geraint-thomas","tag-tom-dumoulin","tag-tour-de-france","tag-tour-de-france-2018"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Geraint Thomas Wins the 2018 Tour de France - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Emotional victory for Thomas. 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