Geraint Thomas (pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Geraint Thomas — Tour de France winner, double Olympic gold medalist, and five-time podium finisher on Grand Tours — joins Elis James, Mike Bubbins, and Steff Garrero this week. He’s chosen a selection of clips that inspired him, fascinated him, or just made him laugh along the way.
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Distant Pod is a weekly podcast where Elis, Mike, and Steff explore the week’s best (and worst) clips, documentaries, books, and sporting moments — from iconic brilliance to complete nonsense, with strong opinions guaranteed.
This week’s episode features cycling, athletics, and classic moments from sport’s past, all curated by Geraint himself.
Geraint Thomas Clips:
Jan Ullrich — 1997 Tour de France Win
“This is the clip that really got me hooked on cycling.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=stwxONV21pw&pp=ygUcamFuIHVsbHJpY2ggMTk5NyBhbHBlIGQnaHVleg%3D%3D
Colin Jackson Highlights
https://youtu.be/QLcgbjTe7lE?si=ZfA8__WaarXppJNm
https://youtu.be/kYUvsNMLXH0?si=bKnzuCep0G1tSZJB
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this week's socially distant sports bar part two |
| 0:06.0 | it's such a silly sentence isn't it yeah it's like you want the toy in france |
| 0:12.0 | you know you're from woodchurch for grossly yeah but that |
| 0:16.0 | you'd love your back fence one yeah i was say. He's a big bag of presents. |
| 0:22.2 | That's a top dad lie that. That's a good dad lie, yeah. To add in the extra level that he hurdles us the fences on the street. And I don't know if that's just... Nine seconds, Christ. The ego in me and, like, the athlete in me, but I'm like, they're not nine seconds better than me, mate. We've got better bikes. |
| 0:36.7 | You've just got a better bike. |
| 0:38.0 | That's all it is. |
| 0:39.3 | If you want more from distant. not nine seconds better than me, mate. We've got better bikes. You've just got a better bike. |
| 0:38.0 | That's all it is. |
| 0:39.3 | If you want more from DistantPod, |
| 0:41.9 | then we've set up an Apple subscription channel called the Distant Pod bonus club. |
| 0:47.6 | And the big bonus of this one is that it is ridiculously easy to sign up for. |
| 0:52.3 | So if you want part one and part two of each week's episode to |
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