At an Ineos Grenadiers team training camp earlier this year ahead of the 2023 Tour de France, lead sports director Steve Cummings used a picture of one of the squad’s more unexpected - although fully deserved - success stories as an inspirational example: Geraint Thomas in yellow on the Champs Elysées in 2018.
Thomas had come into that Tour as a rider who was not fully established as Ineos ‘Plan B’ to Chris Froome. Yet as Froome flagged in July after digging deep to take his own victory in the Giro d’Italia, it was Thomas who triumphed, and since then has taken second and third in the Tour as well.
