{"id":189826,"date":"2022-06-20T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T09:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=189826"},"modified":"2022-06-20T09:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T09:15:53","slug":"geraint-thomas-wins-tour-de-suisse-dont-think-many-were-expecting-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2022\/06\/20\/geraint-thomas-wins-tour-de-suisse-dont-think-many-were-expecting-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Geraint Thomas Wins Tour de Suisse: \u2018Don\u2019t think many were expecting that\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What a way to prove your worth ahead of the Tour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Welshman hits form<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The 36-year-old Tour winner claimed the overall victory at the Tour de Suisse with a stunning time-trial performance. Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) finished only three seconds behind Remco Evenepoel, the stage winner. He was over a minute quicker than Sergio Higuita (Bora-Hansgrohe) and thus overtook him in the general classification.<\/p>\n<p>It was the ninth stage race victory for Thomas who seems to be getting in great shape ahead of the Tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t think many were expecting that,\u201d the Welshman wrote on Twitter. \u201cDelighted to finally win [the] Tour de Suisse. Big thanks to the boys and the team for all of their work this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not bad company \ud83e\udd23\ud83d\udc4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oAsoO65pHT\">https:\/\/t.co\/oAsoO65pHT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Geraint Thomas (@GeraintThomas86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeraintThomas86\/status\/1538600824032710659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Sergio Higuita managed to hold the second place in the overall standings and Jakob Fuglsang (Israel-Premier Tech) finished third.<\/p>\n<h4>Tour de Suisse \u2013 stage eight results<\/h4>\n<p>1. Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) \u2013 28:26<br \/>\n2. Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) + 3 seconds<br \/>\n3. Stefan K\u00fcng (Groupama-FDJ) + 11 seconds<\/p>\n<h4>Final general classification<\/h4>\n<p>1. Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) \u2013 33:07:09<br \/>\n2. Sergio Higuita (Bora-Hansgrohe) + 1:12<br \/>\n3. Jakob Fuglsang (Israel-Premier Tech) + 1:16<br \/>\n4. Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) + 2:10<br \/>\n5. Stefan K\u00fcng (Groupama-FDJ) + 2:25<br \/>\n6. Bob Jungels (AG2R Citro\u00ebn Team) + 2:59<br \/>\n7. Felix Gro\u00dfschartner (Bora-Hansgrohe) + 3:37<br \/>\n8. Dani Mart\u00ednez (Ineos Grenadiers) + 3:39<br \/>\n9. Domenico Pozzovivo (Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty-Gobert Mat\u00e9riaux) + 3:42<br \/>\n10. Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) + 3:45<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a way to prove your worth ahead of the Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":189828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[6457,4619,1080,583,3499,3250],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-189826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-2022-tour-de-suisse","tag-cycling-news","tag-geraint-thomas","tag-road-cycling","tag-sergio-higuita","tag-tour-de-suisse","global-categories-cycling"],"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 Tour de Suisse - We Love Cycling Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What a way to prove your worth ahead of the Tour. 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