What next for Geraint Thomas and Team Sky after his Tour triumph?

The races Thomas targets next and his working relationship with Chris Froome are uncertain – if he chooses to stay with Team Sky

With a first Tour de France win out of the way Geraint Thomas will show in the next few months whether he is a ticker or accumulator. Some athletes tend to achieve a particular goal – thereby ticking that box – then move on to something else, the best recent example at the Tour being Bradley Wiggins who won the yellow jersey, then added a world time trial title, an Hour Record, an attempt at a one-day Classic and finally one last Olympic gold medal. Accumulators have an appetite for repeating their feats, troubling the record books as they do so, the obvious current model being Chris Froome.

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