{"id":371910,"date":"2026-01-15T19:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371910\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:27:13","slug":"tour-de-france-2027-wales-can-match-alpe-dhuez-for-tour-atmosphere-geraint-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371910\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2027: Wales can match Alpe d\u2019Huez for Tour atmosphere &#8211; Geraint Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Geraint Thomas says the atmosphere on the Welsh stage of the 2027 Tour de France will rival that of Alpe d&#8217;Huez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tour de France organisers have confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c2d7je04wggo\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales will host the third stage of the iconic race<\/a> in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tour general director Christian Prudhomme says the challenging Welsh stage of the 2027 Tour de France could shake up the early battle for the yellow jersey before adding: &#8220;Wales is made for bikes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geraint Thomas says the atmosphere on the Welsh stage of the 2027 Tour de France will rival that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371910","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=371910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}