Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas and Giro d’Italia winner Chris Froome will ride together in the OVO Energy Tour of Britain for the first time since 2009. Team Sky’s British pair, who placed first and third in July’s Tour de France, will both be on the start line of Britain’s biggest annual sporting event in Pembrey Country Park, Carmarthenshire, on Sunday 2 September.

As Wales basks in the yellow-infused glow of Geraint Thomas’s Cardiff homecoming, there’s a nagging question for cycling aficionados and those keen to recognise the pioneering spirit of female riders. Was Thomas the first Welsh rider – and third Briton – to win the Tour de France? Or was he – and both Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome – beaten to it by a woman from Wick?

Geraint Thomas has agreed to sign a new deal to stay at Team Sky. Wales’ first Tour de France winner will put pen to paper in the next few days – a move which will disappoint a number of rival teams who were keen to persuade him to move on, given his battle for long-term team leader status with Chris Froome. Thomas, whose Team Sky contract is about to expire, revealed on Thursday he had been courted by rival teams after winning Le Tour last month.

There’s already a golden post box dedicated to Geraint Thomas’ Olympic triumphs opposite Cardiff Castle and now there are plans to create a yellow one to celebrate his Tour de France victory. Cardiff West MP Kevin Brennan was one of thousands who backed the plan on Twitter, while there were also calls to paint the Lighthouse dedicated to Arctic explorer Captain Scott at Roath Park the same colour. Cardiff council lit up the City Hall with yellow lights over the weekend in tribute to one of its most famous sons. They trumped that by flying a yellow jersey in the Civic Centre as a mark of further respect on Monday.

Joe Cordina will pick up the baton for Welsh sport this weekend when he aims to follow in the footsteps of Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas by bringing another title home to the capital city. After two appearances on Anthony Joshua bills at the Principality Premiership, Cordina is the main attraction at Cardiff’s Ice Arena Wales on Saturday night when he meets Sean Dodd for the vacant Commonwealth lightweight title.

Geraint Thomas’ epic Tour de France victory has come 51 years on from the debut of a Welsh rider in the world renowned event. Colin Lewis blazed the trail for Thomas and Team Sky teammate Luke Rowe when he took part in the 1967 and 1968 tours as part of a British team. It wasn’t until Thomas made his debut in the race in 2007 that a Welsh rider once again appeared at the tour.

They have cleared a yellow jersey-sized space on the wall at Geraint Thomas’s old school – right next to Gareth Bale’s framed Real Madrid shirt and the rugby jersey worn by Lions captain Sam Warburton. Teachers and pupils hope it won’t stay empty for long. Nothing underlines the incredible roll of sporting honour at Whitchurch High School in Cardiff, more than those three trophies.

“The Welsh Sports Hall of Fame would like to join with everyone else in Wales and beyond in congratulating Geraint Thomas in becoming only the first Welsh cyclist to win the Tour de France. It is a hugely significant victory for one of the greatest sportsmen ever produced in Wales.

Geraint Thomas rode himself into the record books as he was crowned Tour de France champion. The Cardiff-born rider became the first Welshman and only the third Brit in history to win the coveted Yellow Jersey of the world’s greatest cycle race.

As Geraint Thomas enjoys one of the iconic moments of Welsh sport by winning the Tour de France, the question is already being asked – is it the most iconic? Is it the greatest moment in Welsh sporting history? Has any Welsh sporting star achieved a more notable, more praiseworthy, more admirable, or simply more […]

Geraint Thomas was close to tears as he reflected on his impending victory in the Tour De France. The Welshman will win his first Tour when the peloton reaches Paris on Sunday, after finishing third in Saturday’s individual time trial on stage 20. The Team Sky rider finished the stage with a general classification lead of one minute 51 seconds ahead of Sunweb’s Tom Dumoulin, who won the 31km race against the clock from Saint-Pee-sur-Nivelle to Espelette by one second from Chris Froome.

Geraint Thomas will “expect the worse” as he prepares to see off his Tour de France rivals for perhaps the final time on Friday afternoon. The Welshman heads into the mountains for the last occasion before Saturday’s time trial, with a lead that most expect him to be able to protect but there are no guarantees. Thomas and Team Sky will be alive to attacks from all his rivals as he seeks to retain his one minute 59 second advantage over Team Sunweb’s Tom Dumoulin –  an advantage preserved on yesterday’s flat stage to Pau  which won by Frenchman Arnaud Demare –  as attention turns to Stage 19.