Three weeks until the tour, is there a plan G?

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After a blistering performance at the Dofine, we asked Geraint Thomas

if there's any chance he'll get a crack at the Yellow Jersey.

He has said definitely, but he certainly told me to make sure I'm ready and just be ready

for any sort of possibility basically.

And is Mark Cavendish in the sort of form to make history?

With me it's the two Robb's, it's Hatch and Hales.

Rob Hales, has this sunshine got you out on your bike?

Is it? Yes, it has. It's been warm, I've been turning my legs, and I've reminded myself why I retired. It's hard work going up hills, but I'm still good on the descents. Hatchie, it's always sunny where you live. It is, and I've reminded myself why I was never good enough to be a proper cyclist anyways. But I've been out on my bike and it's been lovely. And what about the cycling we've been watching? Rob Hales, do you catch much of the dofenei? A little bit, been following some of it in between doing odd jobs around the house while I'm home and what a race. G.B. First and second can't be bad. Hatchie, do you catch it, or have you been on other duties?

I did catch it towards the end. I was having a bit of a decompression after the Jodi Talia for the first few stages. I normally have a bit of an embargo that I put on the first three or four stages of the dolphin here. I usually don't want to know at all. But then I started hearing, you know, on the back channels that there might be some British interest and switched it on. Lo and behold, Geraint Thomas. What a ride

that was. Geraint Thomas in yellow, Adam Yates, after the successes, until a certain point of Simon Yates

at the Giro in second. Well, we had a catch-up with Geron and we asked him how it was for him.

Probably one of the biggest, one of my races, well, yeah, outside of the Grand Tour.

So obviously so close to the Tour of France as well, everyone's in good shape and whatever.

So, yeah, I was really happy and chuffed to have won it.

So after the way that Chris Frume won the Giro,

is this team Sky's new secret master plan for winning team stages?

You have a crash on the first day,

and then you come storming through when we get to the mountains.

Not really, no, but it'd be nice if it was, but no, it was, uh, yeah,

that's still, what I was going to say, scarred me quite literally, but, uh, certainly wasn no, it was, uh, yeah, that's still, what I was going to say scarred me

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