His 2017 season has been marked by crashes and setbacks, but Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) is back in action on home roads at the Tour of Britain this week, picking himself up and dusting himself off once again for one final crack ahead of the winter.
Thomas hardly put a foot wrong in the early part of the season, winning a stage at Tirreno-Adriatico and the overall at the Tour of the Alps, but the bad luck started when he was involved in the crash with a stopped police motorbike at the Giro d’Italia.
He was forced to quit the Italian Grand Tour and so switched his focus to the Tour de France but, after winning the opening time trial and donning the maillot jaune, his race ended with a broken collarbone on stage 9.
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“I had just over two weeks off the bike, and then getting back into it, I didn’t have the motivation or dedication I had going into the Giro or the Tour really,” Thomas said in Mansfield on Wednesday. “But yeah, it’s just nice to be racing again, especially on home roads."
While the major objectives are a thing of the past, there is some incentive for Thomas to move up through the gears this week, in the form of the World Championships, taking place in Norway from September 17-24.
Thomas confirmed he will ride the team time trial with Team Sky and the road race with Great Britain, but ruled himself out of the individual time trial.
Lacking high-end watts
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