Evening Standard
Both publicly and privately, Geraint Thomas was given no guarantees he would even make Ineos Grenadiers’ team for this year’s Tour de France. Off the back of that, he was called up for the Tour de Suisse as a super domestique for the team’s rising star, 22-year-old Tom Pidcock, only to upstage his fellow Briton and the rest of the field to win. This week, he was named leader for his team’s push on a race they had dominated for so long before Tadej Pogacar’s emergence as, arguably, the star general classification (GC) rider of his generation.