Geraint Thomas returned to racing today at the Tour de Pologne with his focus firmly set on the World Championships Time Trial and the Vuelta a España, his second Grand Tour in 2023 after his painfully narrow overall defeat at the Giro d’Italia this May.
The Ineos Grenadiers racer has been in Poland before, but bike riding was probably not foremost on his mind. “I was once in Krakow for a bit of a lad’s holiday, a stag-do, so that’s a little bit different to racing,” he explained with a flicker of wry humour to Polish TV before stage 1 kicked off in the city of Poznan.
