Geraint Thomas catapulted up the standings on the third stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico in Italy. The 34-year-old finished in a group of nine riders – including rival Simon Yates – that crossed the line 20 seconds adrift of stage winner Michael Woods in the uphill finish at Saturnia.

Geraint Thomas says he is fired up for a crack at the Giro d’Italia next month after admitting he did not want to go to the Tour de France to make up the numbers for his team. The Team Ineos rider – currently competing at the Tirreno-Adriatico in Italy – has cleared up confusion over his admission from the Tour which he famously won in 2018.

Geraint Thomas came safely through another sprint stage on the Tirreno-Adriatico race in Italy. The Welsh ace crossed the line after the 201km from Camaiore to Follonica in 22nd spot in the same time as Germany’s Pascal Ackermann who won his second stage in a row.

Geraint Thomas finished safely in the front pack on the opening stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race in Italy. Wales’ 2018 Tour de France champ crossed the line in 31st spot in the same time as stage winner Pascal Ackermann.

Geraint Thomas will return to action in Italy next week for the first time since his Tour de France snub. The 2018 Yellow Jersey winner will line-up in the Tirreno-Adriatico as he sharpens his fitness ahead of a crack at the Giro d’Italia next month.

Geraint Thomas was putting on a brave face today after seeing his target suddenly shifted from the Tour de France to the Giro d’Italia. The 2019 Yellow Jersey winner was surprisingly excluded from from Team Ineos’ Tour plans just 10 days before the Grand Depart in Nice along with four-time winner Chris Froome.

Geraint Thomas will not be bidding to win the Tour de France this year after he and Chris Froome were both shock omissions from their Team Ineos squad. Both former Tour winners were left out of the team that will contest the tour in what will feel like a hammer blow to Wales’ 2018 winner. Neither Thomas nor Froome have shown much good form recently after cycling’s return and they have paid the price by being left out for the biggest event in the sport.

Geraint Thomas believes his return to the road is nicely paced as the countdown starts to the Tour de France at the end of the month. The Team Ineos rider raced for the first time competitively when he finished 24th in a bunched sprint at the end of the opening stage of the Tour de l’Ain in Ceyzériat, France on Friday. The Welsh 2018 Tour de France winner has happy with his display and will look for further progress in the remainder of the tour which continues on Saturday with a stage in the Jura mountains that includes five categorized climbs.

Geraint Thomas believes the increasing realism of virtual cycling is helping fill the void left by the current sporting lockdown. Wales’ 2018 Tour de France winner got his competitive instincts sharpened again by taking part in the recent Team INEOS eRace. The race – highlights of which are being shown by S4C on Friday night – aims to replicate the iconic Alpe d’Heuz summit finish on the famous stage of the tour.

Geraint Thomas has headed to his Monaco base from his home in Wales as he gears up for a crack at regaining the Tour de France crown later this year. The Cardiff-born rider flew out on Monday to ramp up his training for Le Tour which has been rescheduled to start in Nice on August 29. On Monday, Thomas posted a photo on his social media accounts of himself on a plane, wearing a face mask, with the caption: “Boarded and ready to go.”

Geraint Thomas is desperate for the Tour de France to go ahead this year after it was postponed by two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Welsh winner of the race in 2018 is currently raising money for the NHS with three charity rides inside his garage at his home in Cardiff. But the 33-year-old is hoping a delayed tour can now get the go-ahead in late August.

You don’t have to be a ranting Premier League football manager, raging against VAR, to understand how technology is changing every aspect of sport. From parkrun to Eliud Kipchoge, sport is being dramatically altered. Graham Thomas speaks to some of those at the sharp end of the transformation. In Wales – as in so many other countries around the world – runners watched in awe and open-mouthed disbelief as Eliud Kipchoge became the first athlete to run the marathon in under two hours back in October. Not everyone, though, was concentrating on the Keynan superstar’s grimace as he bounded along the road in Vienna. Many top class runners were looking at what Kipchoge had on his feet and wondering if the technology of the Nike Alpha Fly might give them wings, too.