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Geraint Thomas - "If I won the Tour 10 times and people thought it was boring, I wouldn't care"
CyclingFriday, 07 July 2023 at 14:30
For the third straight year at the Tour de France, the battle for the Maillot Jaune looks to be a two-horse race between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard. Former winner Geraint Thomas was best of the rest twelve months ago and he has been sharing his opinions.
Alongside his INEOS Grenadiers teammate and Welsh compatriot Luke Rowe, Thomas shares his views on a wide variety of cycling-related topics on their podcast, 'Watts Occuring'. Understandably, the Tour de France is the hot topic right now and whilst some have been critical of the Tour de France for 'boring' sprint stages and the predictability of another Pogacar/Vingegaard battle, Thomas doesn't thin the riders in the peloton will care very much.
"I heard some people saying that the sprint stages are boring, let's have them attacking, why can't you have 20 stages like today (stage 6 e.d)," says Thomas. "But it just wouldn't happen. When you get a really hard stage, with like, five climbs it's never as exciting as people think. The stages that are exciting are the stages that everyone can race. Not ones everyone is scared of."
"If I won the Tour 10 times and people thought it was boring, I wouldn't care," he continues. "I would love to race like Pogacar, attack and do this and do that but if I just played like Chelsea and won... I don't care!"
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