Geraint Thomas's career is finally back to winning ways almost three years after a dominant display at the 2018 Tour de France saw him take the yellow jersey all the way to Paris.
On that Tour, Thomas stepped out of the shadows of former team mates Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins to win the race and take two stages, including a brilliant win atop Alpe d'Huez.
However, he experienced very poor form for periods the following season and since then a litany of crashes, most notably at the Giro last year, derailed his efforts to get back to the top of the sport. But that difficult phase of his career has been now put to bed, as Thomas today claimed the final yellow jersey at the Tour de Romandie.
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He went into the 16.19km TT in Fribourg today in 2nd place overall, just 11 seconds behind Michael Woods (Israel Start-Up Nation). Thomas had suffered an unusual crash just short of the finish line yesterday when he and Woods were sprinting for stage victory, but has clearly not sustained any lasting injury.
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Welshman Thomas did not win today's TT as the victory was secured by Rémi Cavagna (Deceuninck-QuickStep), with Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-Nippo) 2nd at six seconds. Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) was 3rd, some 17 seconds off the winner.
And when race leader Woods could only manage a lowly 28th place today at 1:11, Thomas had sealed the overall win. He took the victory by 28 seconds from his team mate Richie Porte; the Australian finishing 5th in today's TT at 20 seconds.
Fausto Masnada (Deceuninck-QuickStep) was 6th in the TT and that was enough to move him up to 3rd in the final general classification. The only Irish rider in the race, Eddie Dunbar of Ineos Grenadiers, was 54th today at 1:55 having put in a brilliant climbing performance for the team over the last week.
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