On the 17th January, the first UCI WorldTour race
of 2025 will kick off with the Tour Down Under. With just under two months to
go until the event, race organisers have announced that Geraint Thomas will
participate in what will be his tenth, and possibly final time, at the Tour
Down Under.
The 2018 Tour de France winner looks set to be ending his illustrious
career next year, and the 38 year old Welshman is one of the greatest British
cyclists ever. He’s got two Olympic gold medals to his name on the track, and
so nearly added the Giro d’Italia to his collection in 2023, before standing on
the podium at the event once more in 2024. That podium back in May gave the
INEOS Grenadiers one of their very few bright spots of the season. If this is
to be his last season, fans will hopefully give him the same sort of send off
they gave Thomas’ friend Mark Cavendish this year.
The Santos Tour Down Under was first held in 1999, and
typically races around Adelaide in South Australia. The 2024 edition was won by
Stephen Williams of Israel-Premier Tech, and the race has been won 14 times by Australian
riders throughout the years.
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LOCKED IN🔒 Olympian & Tour de France winner @GeraintThomas86 will be making his 10th and possibly final appearance at the 2025 Santos Tour Down Under🥹 @INEOSGrenadiers. Read more: https://t.co/3eGrHvDY3A
— Santos Tour Down Under 🚴🚴♀️ (@tourdownunder) November 26, 2024
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- That is some very sad news. RIP Tuur, and condolences to his family and friends.
santiagobenites27-11-2024 - I agree @Sweep . I remember than Tadej NEVER said nothing about his imperfect preparation for Tour 2023 because the injury-surgery: he could use the normal bike again only 2 weeks before the start of the Tour (for example, he couldn't prepare at all the 16th TT stage). Instead Jonas cries too much. And nothing explains why if he was so exhausted, he rides Pologne Tour immediately after the tour and not world championship race, months later.
maria2024202427-11-2024 - Completely agree, that said I’m sure what he meant was slightly nuanced (and maybe lost in translation). Obviously there are places and moments you can go full throttle but there are some you can’t and an experienced peleton should not be getting into overly dangerous situations when there is absolutely no gain to be achieved. That said, this obviously becomes a contentious pount when race organisations and even the UCI do nothing or very little to help the peleton recognise these spots. Even in amateur and youth races you will often see marshals warning at critical points, this seems to have been completely abandoned at the pro level in many races. When individual riders pount out black spots to organisers months in advance, it is INEXCUSABLE they don’t evaluate and put in place measures there. This has happened more than once in 2024 alone. Another solution if riders are to be completely responsible is to send a few scouts and have a rider representative meeting before each race/day to transmit information to each team for riders in due time. In this way, they could sll agree to take it easy in bunched groups in such places.Mistermaumau27-11-2024
- Alex Carrera is his agent not his puppeteer. Maxim only can decide to break his contractabstractengineer27-11-2024
- It's a race. It's ludicrous for the event organiser to suggest that competitors should race slower!Pogboom27-11-2024
- Your not looking back far then, the US won one last year and Belgium the year before, they being more likely to repeat than the US. Besides with only 3 per year and Slovenia/Denmark already named that only leaves one country per year so yes obviously that means every year about 200 can’t hope for a GT ;-) On the other hand, it is rare to see so many different countries/ riders winning Giro or TdF over a long period as was the case before the SloDen rivalry heated upMistermaumau26-11-2024
- And now Remco is at that tooMistermaumau26-11-2024
- C’mon, give the guy a break, after all that he only lost to an alien by a few minutes over 80 hours and easily beat everyone else. Without the alien’s improvement over last year he’d probably have even won it. Nobody last year expected alien to still make such a big jump.Mistermaumau26-11-2024
- I understand. But once you join the TdF peloton you don't get to use excuses from before the race. Now if he had crashed in the race that's another story.Sweep26-11-2024
- Bernard would be getting dropped while Pogi still had domestiques helping him.Veganpotter26-11-2024