Geraint Thomas said he couldn’t watch the Giro d’Italia 2020, because it was still “too raw” after his crash in the first week.
Thomas had been the pre-race favourite to win the Italian Grand Tour, before his hopes went up in smoke when he crashed hard on the way to Mount Etna on stage four.
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Watch America's 'toughest, richest' road race live: Levi’s GranFondo aims to restore the US road racing scene with live coverageAmerica’s best racers, on- and off-road, will vie for a $156,000 prize purse
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‘Trump used me as a scapegoat’ - Trans cyclist Austin Killips slams the President for doing nothing to actually elevate, fund or support women athletes‘They are cowards who don’t want to do the actual work of empowering and supporting athletes’ - Killips says
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'There's no bull****, that's what I've always liked' - Geraint Thomas's first BC coach Rod Ellingworth on the retiring WelshmanThe 2018 Tour de France winner will step away from professional cycling at the end of the season
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Geraint Thomas represented 'all the best things about the golden era of British Cycling' - tributes paid to retiring riderFormer and current teammates and other figures from within pro cycling react to the Welshman’s decision to retire at the end of the current season
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'You can’t keep doing it forever' - Geraint Thomas confirms retirement at end of 2025'It would be nice to go to the Tour one more time' Welshman says
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'I don’t think the people around Tom help' - Geraint Thomas on the Tom Pidcock and Ineos Grenadiers situationPidcock was "deselected" from Il Lombardia on Saturday, with the rider taking to Instagram to discuss decision
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Ill Geraint Thomas battling to remain in Tour de FranceThe 2018 Tour de France winner is showing mild symptoms of Covid
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'It was damage limitation': Tom Pidcock, Jai Hindley react to losing time on Tour de France stage two"There’s going to be minutes in three weeks. 21 seconds doesn't mean anything," says Tom Pidcock after first blows dealt from the favourites in Bologna
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Tom Pidcock 'dreaming' of taking yellow jersey on opening weekend of Tour de FranceBritish rider hopes to play starring role in Italian Grand Départ
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'I think I'll get the opportunity to go for a stage' - Geraint Thomas relishing support role at Tour de FranceFormer yellow jersey winner says this year's race "could be my last"
