By now, Geraint Thomas has seen just about everything there is to see in professional cycling, and so the umpteenth Tadej Pogačar masterpiece was never likely to be met with much surprise or wonderment from the Welshman.
“Nothing new, that, is it? We expected it,” Thomas said when he reached the summit of Oropa at the end of stage 2 of the Giro d’Italia, after yet another display of almost routine dominance from Pogačar.
