Geraint Thomas ready for the mountain stage of Giro d’Italia 2024. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), the Welshman of the Ineos Grenadiers is facing one of the key days of this Corsa Rosa, which will offer five GPM and 5400 meters of altitude difference in 222 kilometres. A demanding stage, which comes after two rather intense weeks of racing and which could give a new face to the ranking, even if the 37-year-old looks beyond today, also thinking about the stages of the third week.
“It will definitely be a tough day, but I think the next ones will be just as tough – Thomas’ words to our microphones – It’s a great day, after 14 days of solid racing, and the first day of big mountains, so It will also be interesting to see how everyone has recovered. Let’s hope the situation is good for us.”
The 1986 born player didn’t want to say too much about the tactics that the team will adopt: “There’s Pogacar, then there’s me with a gap and all the others quite close, so I think we just have to run, see how it goes and hopefully try to seize the opportunity if it comes“.
The Welshman then commented on his teammate’s victory yesterday Filippo Ganna: “Obviously he wanted it badly and it’s very nice for the team too, because we have the feeling that we ran well and livened up the race when we could and that we came close a few times. But it’s nice to get that win.” A success that Thomas himself also hopes to achieve: “Hopefully, It would be nice to win one sooner or laterbut we’ll see.”
