{"id":113721,"date":"2025-09-04T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113721\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:19:10","slug":"exact-times-and-places-where-you-can-see-geraint-thomas-in-his-last-ever-race-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113721\/","title":{"rendered":"Exact times and places where you can see Geraint Thomas in his last-ever race in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final two days of the Tour of Britain will be held in Wales this weekend\"GeraintGeraint Thomas will end his career in Wales this weekend(Image: Darren Britton\/WALES NEWS SERVICE)<\/p>\n

Geraint Thomas will embark on his final race in Wales on Sunday, September 7, as he brings the curtain down on a truly remarkable career. The cycling great has cemented himself as a household name across Wales after picking up multiple Olympic gold medals and becoming the first Welshman to win the Tour De France in 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n

The last day of the Lloyds Tour of Britain will see Thomas cycle from Newport<\/a>, up the Ebbw Vale<\/a> and Rhymney Valleys, before heading into Cardiff<\/a> and finishing on North Road, outside the Royal Welsh College for Music and Drama.<\/a><\/p>\n

The race will head through Thornhill before passing the home of the 39-year-old’s childhood cycling club, Maindy Flyers, and going within 100 metres of his parents’ house.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunday will mark only the third time Wales has hosted the final stage of the race, previously doing so in 2017 and 2023.<\/p>\n

Where and when can I see Geraint Thomas?START, National Velodrome of Wales – 11.45Pontymister – 12.06Wattsville – 12.14Blackwood – 12.26Crumlin – 12.37Ebbw Vale – 12.58Markham – 13.14Rhymney – 13.32Deri – 13.53Bargoed – 13.59Nelson – 14.11Ystrad Mynach – 14.17Caerphilly – 14.26FINISH, North Road, Cardiff – 14.45\"TheThe cyclists will ride from Newport to Cardiff on Sunday(Image: British Cycling)<\/p>\n

Spectators can expect to see an advance vehicle 15 minutes ahead of the peloton keeping spectators up to date.<\/p>\n

The fan village and podium will be located in and around College Road, opposite the finish line.<\/p>\n

It will open at 11am with a big screen showing the day’s live race coverage and an exhibition of bikes from Geraint Thomas’ illustrious career. There will also be a variety of sports, food and cycling brands with stands.<\/p>\n

The podium ceremony is expected to take place at approximately 3pm and alongside it there will also be a special presentation to the Welshman to mark his highly distinguished cycling career.<\/p>\n

The Tour of Britain will begin in Woodbridge in Suffolk, before heading to Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire ahead of the final two days in south Wales.<\/p>\n

Stage five will start in Pontypool and travel through Monmouthshire<\/a> before finishing with a double ascent up The Tumble, above Abergavenny.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Thomas was given a hero’s welcome as tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of Cardiff for his homecoming celebrations after winning the Tour De France.<\/p>\n

Sporting his famous yellow jersey, Thomas rode through crowds of fans before the celebrations culminated outside Cardiff Castle. In a speech, the Welsh cyclist thanked crowds for the “bonkers” reception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final two days of the Tour of Britain will be held in Wales this weekendGeraint Thomas will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5553,2188,4985,52530,41147,101,54818,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-113721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-caerphilly","tag-cardiff","tag-cycling","tag-geraint-thomas","tag-newport","tag-sports","tag-tour-of-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}