2018 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Geraint Thomas says that he'd love to be able to race some form of La Grande Boucle this year in order to support livel♎ihoods within the cycling industry, but also accepts that it may not be possible if the coronavirus crisis continues to keep the sport – and much of the world – in lockdown.
Talking in a interview published on Monday, the 33-year-old Welshman said that he'd relish the opportunity to try to win a second Tour – as part of a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Team Ineos squaℱd that would also likely include defending champion Egan Bernal and four-time 💃winner Chris Froome – but that "there are more important things in life".
The new🌳 father &n🌱dash; who lives with his wife and son in Monaco – is currently back in Wales, staying fit on the turbo trainer and occasionally taking solo rides and walks outside, as current British rules allow under the coronavirus measures.
"The hardest thing is just the unknown," Thomas told the Telegraph. "If you knew that the Tour de Suisse [in June] was going to be your next race, you could just work towards that; devise a training programme, and do it. B😼ut at the moment it's all up in the air.
"Obviously I'd love to have another crack [at a Tour title]. I do feel like I'm in the shape of my life now. These are my years. But it is what it🥀 is. There are more important things in life," he said.
"I've heard a few people say, 'It's just sport.' And of course it is," Thomas said. "When you look back thro𝔉ugh the history books in 20 years' time, if in 2020 there was no Tour, that do🎉esn't matter.
"But, on the other hand, there are 20-odd teams, and companies invested in those teams, and if it went, there [might be] quite a few people left unemployed. So while the result itself doesn't matt🔴er, the event does because there are a lot of livelihoods wrapped up in it – not just teams b🎐ut the sponsors," he said.
One option, mooted by French sports minister Roxana Maracineanu last week – in a bid to potentially still hold the Tour in its scheduled time slot from June 27-July 19, or later in the summer now that the Tokyo Olympic Games have been postponed until 2021 – would be for the race to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:take place 'behind closed doors', without the usual stage-start villages ♕or roadside fans, in order to protect both the riders and the public.
"Well, it wouldn't be the Tour without the fans… It would be a lot harder to keep [fans] away from the Tour than it was at Paris-Nice," Thomas said, referring to the 'mini Tou🅷r de France' held in March, which proved to be the last major race before professional cycling's enfಞorced break.
"But, like I said, e൩verything is changing so fast. It's hard to speculate. I just hope for everyone's sake that is all over quickly," he said of the sport's shutdown.
"I just want to race my bike again, so in that sense I'd love [the Tour] to be on – but only if it was safe to do so♈. Obviously, at the end of the day, t🦂his is about people's health, first and foremost."
