Geraint Thomas targets one final Tour de France begin in his remaining racing season

Geraint Thomas has outlined his plans for the upcoming 2025 season, which is about to be his remaining yr within the professional peloton.

The 38-year-old Welshman will retire on the finish of the season after 18 years of racing at Barloworld and Ineos. Speaking to his teammate Michał Kwiatkowski at pre-season coaching camp, he mentioned that his 2025 might be focussed on stage racing, beginning with the Tour Down Under.

“Starting down underneath, it will be my tenth Tour Down Under,” Thomas mentioned in a ‘behind-the-scenes’ video from Ineos’ pre-season coaching camp in Spain.

“For me, it is one of the best place to start out, you’ve a month or 5 weeks down there with constant coaching and good climate – it is splendid.

“Come again, I believe in the meanwhile Algarve then a number of stage races – Tirreno-Adriatico, Catalunya.”

Once upon a time, Thomas was a serious spring Classics contender, successful the E3 Harelbeke and taking high 10s on the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. However, he will not be returning to the cobbles subsequent April.

“The Classics are simply too loopy for me now, I believe,” he mentioned “You’ve obtained to be ready to crash. I’m undecided I’ve obtained the minerals for that anymore.”

Instead, after taking up quite a few stage races by the spring, Thomas mentioned that he is hoping to race one remaining Tour de France in what can be his 14th outing on the race he received in 2018. 

And in what stands out as the remaining race of his storied profession, the Tour of Britain could be on the calendar in early September.

“More stage races. I’d like to do yet another Tour. Maybe the Tour of Britain to complete all of it off,” Thomas mentioned.