“I was emotional crossing the line, and I was almost choking up riding my bike!” 🥲

Geraint Thomas after his final race 🗣️

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G a question that I don’t know how many times you must have been asked. I mean, how are you feeling? Well, I was emotional crossing the line. It was uh I was riding through Bur Grove and all the fans. I was just like almost like choking up uh riding my bike, which was weird. And then um yeah, it’s across the line. I’m with Swifty who was uh who I’ve raced with since we were 12. Um so yeah, it all came out then. And then speaking to S4 was just like all I couldn’t even speak you know so I had to but um it’s definitely emotional super special though I’ve been saying since since it was announced the route really that you know to finish here is just unbelievable really and the fans and everything is just like the sport I’ve had over the years is incredible. So to finish here is like full circle and you know ride past Mandy we’re about a K to go uh where it all started. No better way. And just listening to those fans, I mean, that must mean such a tremendous amount to you personally. Yeah, it’s unreal. The atmosphere riding in and you know, up Kiny Mountain and all week, well, all a lot of the years I’ve been racing, but especially today and yesterday was just insane. And, you know, just riding through here then and the amount of people and, you know, just going nuts. It was uh as I say, it’s just mad that people care that much about seeing me do well as what I do really. So, it was it was just meant so much. And uh yeah, what can I say? is uh what a way to