The 38-year-old Welshman explains on social media that he will abandon racing at the end of next season. He won in France in 2018 and twice finished on the podium in the general classification of the Giro
“It will be very nice to compete in the Tour de France one last time and race the Tour of Great Britain, at my home. Then at the end of 2025 I will retire.” With this message spread via the social channels of his team, Ineos Grenadiers, the Welshman Geraint Thomas, winner of the 2018 Tour, announces that he will retire at the end of the next competitive season, when he will be 39 years old.
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A rider particularly suited to stage races, in which he was second and third in the Giro (2023 and 2024) and third in the Tour (2022), and won the Tour of Romandie, Dauphiné and the Tour of Switzerland, Thomas also made it known that the his last year as a cyclist will begin as early as next January 21st with participation in the Tour Down Under in Australia. Then he will be present at the Volta de Algarve, the Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour of Catalonia. We will see the rest later, taking for granted his participation in the Tour and, as Thomas himself said, in the Tour of Great Britain. But Thomas was also an excellent pistard, given that in the team pursuit he won two Olympic golds, in Beijing 2008 and London 2012, and three world titles (2007, 2008 and 2012).
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