Thomas celebrating his solo win on stage 8 of the Tour de France 2019Īfter watching in awe as Thomas De Gendt of Lotto Soudal rode away from the rest of the Tour de France to take yet another stunning, solo breakaway win, we couldn’t help but wonder ‘just how does he manage to do this time after time?’ When Thomas answered our questions, he had already clocked up about 2500km with the rest of the tour still to go (980 km) so it was no surprise that his answers were short and sweet! Thomas stormed his way to victory on stage eight with a monstrous solo breakaway and we were lucky enough to get a rider’s perspective on breakaway mechanics. One name we have missed out of the list above though is another hero of the peloton, Thomas De Gendt. Not to mention unbelievable performances from Julian Alaphillipe who held on to the leader’s jersey for 12 stages, Simon Yates with two impressive stage wins and Thibault Pinot who looked like a true contender until disaster struck and he had to pull out from the race on stage 19 with a muscle tear in his left thigh. We saw Egan Bernal, the youngest rider in 110 years taking the prized yellow jersey, lord Sagan securing a seventh green jersey and (to French delight) Romain Bardet claiming the polka dot jersey in the mountains.
I think you wo uld agree that this year’s Tour de France was epic to say the least. Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck–Quick-Step) anticipating an attack from Geriant Thomas (Team INEOS) on the Galibier.
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