{"id":126068,"date":"2025-09-07T18:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126068\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:35:07","slug":"geraint-thomas-home-finish-in-cardiff-perfect-for-retiring-cyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126068\/","title":{"rendered":"Geraint Thomas: Home finish in Cardiff &#8216;perfect&#8217; for retiring cyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Geraint Thomas said finishing his final race &#8211; the Tour of Britain &#8211; in his hometown of Cardiff was the perfect way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cd63vxj9606o\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bring the curtain down on his glittering cycling career. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 39-year-old, who won the 2018 Tour de France and became one of Britain&#8217;s most successful riders, was greeted by huge crowds as he crossed the line for the last time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas said ending his journey where it all began &#8211; with friends and family present &#8211; made the farewell even more special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geraint Thomas said finishing his final race &#8211; the Tour of Britain &#8211; in his hometown of Cardiff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-126068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}