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GERAINT THOMAS

36 | Ineos Grenadiers | GBr

Giro starts: 4

Best GC result: 80th, 2012

Best stage result: 2nd, 2012 and 2017

Geraint Thomas is heading back to Italy on not quite a revenge mission, but a personal assignment to prove to himself that his relationship with the year’s first Grand Tour isn’t as cursed as it appears.

Twice the Ineos Grenadier has targeted the maglia rosa, twice he has been foiled by the sort of accidents that he might say only seem to happen to him. First, in 2017, he was caught in a crash provoked by a parked police motorcycle

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