Alpe d’Huez’s infamous Dutch Corner, the Trouée d’Arenberg at Paris-Roubaix, the Champs-Elysees… and North Road, Cardiff. Maybe not the most glamorous location in cycling, but the Welsh capital felt like its heartland today, as thousands of people thronged the streets to celebrate the career of one of its most glittering sportsmen.
Around 8,000 fans gathered in Cardiff for Geraint Thomas’s homecoming after winning the 2018 Tour de France, a race which he readily admits “changed my life”. “I thought it was just going to be the wife and the dog,” he said at the time.
