“The main reason for carrying on is that I’m still enjoying it,” Geraint Thomas says as, at the age of 37, he considers the new two-year contract he has just signed with his struggling team Ineos Grenadiers. Thomas won the Tour de France in 2018 and, this year, he narrowly missed winning the Giro d’Italia when he finished second after leading the race until an agonising time trial on the penultimate day.
Thomas now plans a further big tilt at a grand tour as well as chasing another medal in his fifth Olympic Games in Paris next summer. “Why not?” he says cheerfully. “I’m still riding well.”
