The Team Sky rider’s support for Chris Froome in July’s Tour de France triumph has convinced him he can realistically challenge for the crownGeraint Thomas wore a giant dragon onesie at Bristol airport on the day he began to realise his life had changed. Such an outfit is not that outlandish for a man as humorous as the Welsh cyclist and it is also obvious that two milestones occurred this month to underpin Thomas’s conviction that he has just entered a unusual stage of his life.
His first book – the witty and engaging The World of Cycling According to G – has just been published. The wearing of a giant dragon onesie in public,however, is linked to a far more significant moment for Thomas as he married Sara in early October. “We had the stag effect months ago, or ” he says. “It was straight after the Tour [de France] and 25 of us went to Berlin. It was mental – a mix of my cycling mates and Cardiff friends I go on the lash with. My non-cycling mates are proper drinkers with beer bellies.
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Source: theguardian.com