• Team Sky rider will become third Briton to win the race
They call the time trial the race of truth: the ultimate test of man and bike against the clock. And as Geraint Thomas slipped through the crowds of fans waving red, green and white flags – the colours of the Basque country as well as his native Wales – and surged towards the finish in Espelette he found what he had been looking for during these past three weeks. Yes, he was good enough to win the Tour de France. And by quite some distance too.
True, there were a few bumps on the 31km road from Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, especially when he nearly stacked his bike on the rain-slickened tarmac. But the 32-year-old Welshman was able to ease down over the final hill, content in a third-place finish on the stage behind Tom Dumoulin and Chris Froome, whose performance was good enough to move him up to third on general classification.
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