[Closed] Now G's crashed too…

wonder what the conspiracy theorists will say about this one...

wonder what the conspiracy theorists will say about this one…

G, not 5G.

Team Ineos's chances at this years TDf might be fracked!

I'm sticking to mountain biking, this road riding lark looks too dangerous!

G crashing is not a surprise; him not crashing last year was the bigger surprise.

Well maybe he's got it out of the way before the tour. Shame, there are some proper big hills in this year's Tour de Suisse, I was looking forward to seeing how he went.

Sad news, a lot of training wasted.

Well i’ll be fracked !

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There'll be much wailing and gnashing off teeth in the Welsh side of my household!

Time for Bernal to step up?

Is the TdS on the telly? (freeview/virgin)

OMG! No!
I hope he recovers and is able to partake of Le Tour, if not Vuelta Espana. Poor thing.

I've got him in my velogames team. I also had Tom Dumoulin in my Giro team and he crashed out.

Yes Tour de Suisse on Euro sport (highlights) at 7.00 (please check)

I wonder if Bernal will now say in an interview that the best thing about G crashing is I wont keep being asked who is the leader for the tour!!

G is a knob end but hope he recovers quickly and well.

How is he a knob?

He's won the tour and is a superb ambassador for the sport. Myself and many Brits, young and old alike like him very much.
To get to his level, he's trained hard, probably given up a lot in his life to get to where he is.

He's tweeted that he's absolutely fine. Just a bleed from above the eye so wasn't allowed to get back on his bike (he made it sound like he would have done otherwise).
Says he's got some heavy training days planned for next week to make up for the lack of TdS.

Looks like he's pretty much ok:

https://www.teamineos.com/article/thomas-given-all-clear-following-tour-de-suisse-crash

How is he a knob?

Because he falls of his bike to much. Apart from that he's an absolutely top bloke and a great rider 😎

Never mind hill training, how about staying-on-bike training?

Thinking about it, it's actually rather difficult to do isn't it? Someone needs to invent a bike simulator like they have for aircraft.

Posted 15 hours ago
Bunnyhop

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How is he a knob?

He’s won the tour and is a superb ambassador for the sport. Myself and many Brits, young and old alike like him very much.
To get to his level, he’s trained hard, probably given up a lot in his life to get to where he is.

G is without doubt a great cyclist; nobody can argue that.
I can only imagine that what he has given up are things we would all wish to give up given the opportunity.
He has never had to base his cycling around a 40hr week job - he has been funded and guided since a young age for cycling success; he has lived the dream no doubt.

As for a top bloke; that is very much arguable.
But if you basing that on his post TDF and PR to sell his latest autobiography and ‘Evening With G’ tour then your bar is set pretty low.

To get to his level, he’s trained hard, probably given up a lot in his life to get to where he is.

Not sure that disqualifies you from being a knob tbf. I think most elite sportsmen and women do that, and the more they give up, the bigger the knob they usually are (think a young tiger woods)

That said, I don't mind g, he seems an ok bloke when I've seen him on telly.

A couple of years ago someone I know posted pictures of G playing football with her young kids at a wedding. Looked to me like he was a decent bloke, who was down to earth and happy to mix with us normal folk.

Social norms demand certain etiquette to be followed whilst attending things such as weddings ... refusing to play a little game of footy with children also in attendance would be difficult for even the biggest of nobs.

 Looked to me like he was a decent bloke, who was down to earth and happy to mix with us normal folk.

He is,he grew up not far from where I live. Went to the same school as my kids, the teachers think he was a good lad, I know people who coached him they said he was a great kid. The men and women from his first adult club Jiff say he's down to earth and humble, just a normal guy who happens to be one of the Worlds best cyclists. Moomans got this weirdo chip on the shoulder thing about him 😉.But if he met him (I have) he'd change his mind.

I have met him twice; I was witness to his obvious irritation when Dai-Eye politely asked him for a picture at TOB few years ago ...he so clearly didn’t want to have his photo taken.
I have also heard others describe his less than friendly attitude towards them whilst meeting him out on the road .. and I have actually heard couple of his close friends describe him in not too flattery no terms.

But if your kids went to the same school that quite clearly means he is ok ... how daft would it be to suggest that anyone who had ever been to that school could be a nob😑

Anyone know which tyre sponsor Team Ineos have? Asking for a friend....

Social norms demand certain etiquette to be followed whilst attending things such as weddings … refusing to play a little game of footy with children also in attendance would be difficult for even the biggest of nobs.

Mate of mine was at a friends wedding, Mr Wiggins was there, was a small wedding, no one bothered him all day until my mates son at 10 years old asked him for his autograph. Queue a woe is me rant, 'can I not even go to a wedding without people harrassing me?' and my mate, a hardy bastard ex-boxer from Blantyre having to be dissuaded from punching his **** in.

So no, they don't always follow etiquette of such occasions.

How is he a knob?

Well in this case talking about "the best thing about" my team mate being half dead and broken in intensive care "is".

Knobish thing to say imo. I have never warmed to his attitude, he may of course be a lovely bloke but I was so shocked about what he said I had to rewind the telly box to check.

At about 2.00mins in here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/cycling/48664428

That seems a bit harsh; it appears to be a joke, his choice of words is perhaps not ideal - he could have said "the only good thing" or something like that, but to classify him as a knob on the back of that seems pretty excessive.

He's always seemed to me like a decent bloke. I raced alongside him as a junior, although can't profess to have ever actually spoken to him!

Heard that as said light heartedly, but it is also the truth. I suppose a sportsman being up front and truthfull must be "shocking" to some.

I just heard that interview..you need to have quite an agenda to read something bad in what he said.

you need to have quite an agenda to read something bad in what he said.

Why's that? Sounds like a knobish thing to say imo. I dont have any agenda apart from having wasted an hour trying to read one of his books I was given for xmas...my god it was shit

The problems with contemporary sporting autobiographies is that 99% of successful sports people are painfully boring people ... it is their strength to getting to the top. It is their rigid adherence to their given sport that enables them to achieve more than their equally gifted rivals who get distracted by other more exciting things along the way.

Of course there are exceptions: but for every Peter Sagan there is a 1000+ Geraint Thomas’s.

GT's books are funny and genuine, just the way he comes across in his TV interviews.

The haters here are revealing more about their own personalities, IMO.

... please enlighten us Freud

The haters here are revealing more about their own personalities, IMO.

Hate is a harsh word. I just think he's a bit of a knob.

GT’s books are funny

Lets just say he's a better cyclist than writer, mind you I doubt he wrote it.

Some of you lot come across as very bitter people. I really can't understand how anyone can have a problem with G based on what you seen on the TV, read on the internet, heard from undisclosed "close friends" of his.
From what i have seen, read, heard, he seems like a genuinely nice guy. He isn't from a privileged background, he hasn't been gifted the opportunity of becoming a professional rider, he's worked hard to be where he is.
I've haven't personally met the guy but a colleague of mine is a very close friend of his who confirms that he is a very genuine, down to earth guy who despite his fame and fortune has not forgotten who he is, where hes from, or the people he grew up with. He has been in touch frequently over the last few weeks giving us updates on Froome and more recently himself.

I'm not saying you have to be a fan of the guy but unless he has personally upset you in some way, I can't see how anyone can come to the conclusion that he is anything other than a nice guy.

I can only assume that he must have been too busy to give Mooman a autograph once! 🙂

Some of you lot come across as very bitter people.

A theme you will notice on most threads. He seems alright to me too but then I don't expect him to be some sort of perfect role model/best person in the world just because he happens to have achieved something in a chosen sport.

Lets just say he’s a better cyclist than writer, mind you I doubt he wrote it.

Written with Tom Fordyce I believe.

I believe that most sports "autobiographies" are ghost written. They'd be better described as "authorised biographies".

A friend once commented that "David Beckham was a bit thick" but then he doesn't need to be bright, he is/was just a good footballer.

revealing more about their own personalities

Haha! You don't have to be Freud. Just a forum regular.

I just looked up Fordyce to see what ekse he has written and this bit on his wiki page made me laugh!

Fordyce has recently taken up the mantle as leading proponent in the renaissance of acid jazz - raising it to the fore of the public's attention, bringing it 'back stronger'. He also has a crush on 2018 Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas.

Nope - never asked G, or anybody else for an autograph. Not understand the whole wanting someone to write their name for you .. definitely an odd custom!

I just never been a fan of his since learning that he specifically moved to Monaco to avoid paying U.K. tax on his cycling earnings. Which I feel is totally wrong considering the U.K. tax payer significantly enabled him to have the privilege of becoming a multimillionaire cyclist, and it means he is not willing to support/enable those cyclists hoping to follow in his footsteps.

G seems like a nice enough guy just not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

I just never been a fan of his since learning that he specifically moved to Monaco to avoid paying U.K. tax on his cycling earnings. Which I feel is totally wrong considering the U.K. tax payer significantly enabled him to have the privilege of becoming a multimillionaire cyclist, and it means he is not willing to support/enable those cyclists hoping to follow in his footsteps.

Tbf this is a fair criticism, not just of Thomas but anyone who does it. Moving out the country to base yourself somewhere far more suited for training I understand, but moving to Monaco, which by all accounts isnt an especially nice place, does smack of pure greed.