After winning gold on the track at the 2012 Olympic Games, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) has set his sights on the road for 2016. Thomas believes that the Greꦐat Britain team is in the best position yet to bring home their firs💙t gold medal in the men’s road race.

“As a country, we’re the strongest we’ve ever been,” he told Cyclingnews. “I’m really looking forward to racing the Olympics. They’re a massive global event and I’m really looking forward to it.&﷽rdquo;

. The 256.4 kilometre road race course contains two circuits with two climbs a piece, including the 13 per cent average Gumari ascent. The route should favour the strong climbers with a fast kick something Thomas believes suits the British team.

“It should be good,” Thomas said. “I think Britain, with myself Pete [Kennaugh] – depending on if he rides the track or the road – [Ben Swift] Swifty, [Ian] Stannard, and [Luke] Rowe we’ve🥂 got a good core of riders for that sort of course.”

Britain will be looking to put the bad memorie🐼s of their home ♐Olympics behind him when they were unable to bring back the large break to deliver Mark Cavendish to victory in front of Buckingham Palace.

Thomas wasn’t paꦍrt of the five-man team on the road, instead he was winning gold on the track in the team pursuit. The result was to be the Welshman’s last competitive appearance on the track to date. Teammate Bradley Wiggins 💟is working towards a return to the boards at the Olympics, while Cavendish and Swift are also rumoured to be riding the track in 2016, but Thomas says his goals are firmly on the tarmac for now.

“At the moment I’m just focussing on the road and hopefully I’ll be lucky e𓃲nough to get a place in the road race and the time trial. The track is definitely on the back burner for a while,” said Thomas. “I do miss it when I see the boys racing but the way it is these days you’ve got to commit at least half a season, if not a full season and spend a lot of time on the boards at Manchester. The road is where I want to go at the moment.”

He didn’t discount a retu𝐆rn completely, however. “Maybe in a few years I don’t see why not. When I watch track racing, even the Revolution, I do miss it and it is where I started and I’m sure I&rsquꦅo;ll return at some point.”

Paris-Nice, Cobbles and Le Tour

Thomas will be beginning the new road season where he has done for the last three seasons, at the Tour Down U꧒nder, where he will team up with Richie Porte for the general classification. He will make a brief stopover in the Middle East for the Dubai Tour before𝐆 returning to Europe for the Volta ao Algarve.

The next leg of Thomas’ season will be split into two parts, the first of which will begin in March with his big goals of Paris-Nice and the Cobbled Classics. He was on target for a podium finish at Paris-Nice in 2014 before 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:he crashed on stage 7 and was forced to abandon. There were a few more crashes – not just for Thomas himself - during the cobbles but the 28-year-old claimed impressive top 10 finishes at the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, and a podium finish at E3 Harelbꦬeke. Thomas sa𓃲ys that he can take confidence from that and believes that Team Sky can be a big force on the pavé in 2015.

“It would obviously be nice to get on the podium again and to win one of them as well. I think as a team we can take a lot of confidence over the last few years,” he explained. “With Brad looking to come back t🎃o the cobbles again, I think that will add to the strength of the team. If everyone is fit and injury free then I think that we can have a strong team and definitely influence the race. I think that we have learned a lot since we started in 2010.”

Thomas will then be looking to utilise his classics talents to help his teammate Chris Froome regain his Tour de France title in July. “Once I’m done with the Classics I’ll be focussing on the Tour and trying to drop that extra few kilos and work more on the climbs. Hopefully I’ll be able to get my plac꧒e in the team because it’s certainly a strong team.”