Mr & Mrs Thomas - How we won the Tour
BeSpoke: at the Tour de France
BBC
4.5 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
He cried on his wedding day and when he won the greatest prize in cycling, but listen to Geraint Thomas as you’ve never heard him before in this BeSpoke special. With his wife Sara alongside him, the 2018 Tour de France winner talks to Tom Fordyce about how he overcame mountains and a sore bum on the eve of the world’s biggest race to get the better of his teammate Chris Froome.
Thomas's year was capped off by winning the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award in December.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.2 | Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.6 | Get right Thomas of Wales |
| 0:08.5 | showing his strength |
| 0:09.6 | and riding into the yellow jersey |
| 0:12.1 | Suddenly you're in yellow jersey |
| 0:13.7 | A tour of France |
| 0:14.4 | Geraint Thomas kicks |
| 0:15.7 | And Gerai Thomas wins |
| 0:17.7 | On the Alp Duhes |
| 0:19.1 | Deep down I knew I was better than through me as well And I was like, I could just tell I'm just that edge of birthday. |
| 0:26.6 | Hello, I'm Tom Fordyce, welcome to a very special edition of Bespoke. |
| 0:31.6 | 2018 has been a spectacular year for Geraint Thomas, a decade on from finishing all but dead last in the Tour de France after a decade of bad luck, of crashes and of working for other riders. |
| 0:44.3 | This was the year where finally it all came good. |
| 0:48.3 | Geraint Thomas swings across the line, raises his arms and Geraint Thomas will win the Tour de France. |
| 0:55.7 | If I'm suffering, they're suffering. |
| 0:57.5 | Over the course of the next hour, we're going to get a unique insight, not only from Geraint, |
| 1:02.1 | but from his wife, Sarah Thomas, as well, into what it takes to win the yellow jersey. |
| 1:07.4 | You worry about things and, like, you had had a sore bum and... Do you remember? |
| 1:13.3 | What do you mean? |
| 1:14.4 | Remember you had a really tight bum? |
| 1:15.9 | I had a sore bum. |
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