{"id":177086,"date":"2025-10-03T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/177086\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:56:16","slug":"geraint-thomas-home-finish-in-cardiff-perfect-for-retiring-cyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/177086\/","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":177087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-177086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177086","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=177086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}