Cycling, Geraint Thomas announces retirement at the end of 2025

Rome, 25 December 2024 - After the half-hearted announcement of Chris Froome, who spoke about the possible presence at the 2025 lap as of his last in a Great Tour, instead comes the lapidary certainty of Geraint Thomas, who clearly speaks of the next season as the final one of his career.  

Thomas's final season schedule

  The announcement came from the official social channels of his Ineos Grenadiers, in which a clear reference was made to the plans of the winner of the last professional year Tour de France 2018. The most popular race should be the closing one, at least as far as the Grand Tours, in which in recent years the Welshman has nevertheless achieved encouraging results, especially if proportionate to his age: in particular the podiums (according to e third place) To Giro d'Italia since 2023 and in 2024 and the third place al Tour de France 2022. The identity card has its own story, however, as it has never hidden a very frank character like Thomas, who at the end of the three weeks of racing never hid his tiredness: the first symptom of a career in its final stages and, above all, hard to reconcile with the cycling of the phenomena of today. Beyond the afterthoughts, the class of '86 in 2025 he will still be a runner in all respects, albeit with tasks perhaps more of a charismatic leader in a Ineos Grenadiers who has lost many pieces in this transfer market session as captain. His next (and last) season will start very soon: to be precise from Tower Down Under, That the 21st January will reopen the games in the scorching heat of theAustralia. Then Thomas to be Algarve turn, to Tirreno-Adriatico and the Volta a Catalunya. So far the Ineos Grenadiers she did not go further than planning the continuation of spring and summer, but the hope of Thomas to close at Tour de France it's quite explicit.

Spain crazy for Torres

  From an (almost) old glory to a rising star: the Spain dream big with Paul Torres, In which 2025 will make his professional debut wearing the jersey ofUAE Team Emirates of a certain Tadej pogacar. On the class of 2005, on the pages of Mark, the former cyclist expressed himself Miguel Angel Perdiguero. "He could be the heir of Miguel Indurain e Alberto counter, if not even stronger than them. What is certain is that he represents the future of Spanish cycling". Heavy words and investitures for Torres, who like all new professionals could have a soft debut. If his future and approach to cycling among the greats is unknown, what is known is his recent past, with the second places remedied in 2024 al Future Tower and Giro NextGen in that Spain they are already making people cry out about the phenomenon.

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