Geraint Thomas hailed as ‘perfect poster boy’ after Tour win
London — Geraint Thomas has been labelled the "perfect poster boy" after the British Team Sky rider deposed teammate and four-time champion Chris Froome to win the Tour de France. The two-time Olympic gold medallist finished the race in Paris with a cushion of nearly two minutes over Dutch rival Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb) to secure his first yellow jersey, with Froome in third. The 32-year-old Welshman is the third Briton to win the race after Froome and Bradley Wiggins, securing Team Sky’s sixth victory in the race from the past seven editions. Amid a general feeling of suspicion surrounding Sky and their sheer domination of the Tour, Froome was spat at and manhandled and Thomas booed off the podium earlier in the race. Froome was the subject of an investigation into why a sample from his 2017 Tour of Spain victory revealed twice the permitted amount of the asthma drug salbutamol. Banned from racing by the organisers — a decision welcomed in France — Froome was allowed to race after cyc...
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