{"id":716628,"date":"2026-07-29T04:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716628\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:21:14","slug":"we-wanted-to-get-a-bit-more-out-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716628\/","title":{"rendered":"We wanted to get a bit more out of it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Focusing on stage wins, Egan Bernal picked up their best GC placing in 20th while their breakaway exploits weren’t fruitful as well as a near-miss in the opening Team Time Trial in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, it was a tough race. We wanted to get a bit more out of it,” Thomas said via the Team.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I think it started well with the TTT performance. Obviously we had a bit of bad luck and I didn’t go our way.”<\/p>\n

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Punctures and crashes hinder Tour de France<\/p>\n

Untimely punctures and crashes hindered the likes of Bernal, Vauquelin and Thymen Arensman throughout the Tour, and Thomas acknowledged the riders’ hard work and credited their effort.<\/p>\n

He added: “Then a couple of crashes and a few untimely punctures meant it took a while just to get going. From there, the boys did what we wanted: they left it out on the road, they raced aggressively, they tried everything they could.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, you want results at the end of the day, but when you go for stage wins, it means the mountain stages, the TT, and sprint stages wipe out a lot of the racing. There were five days that really ended in breakaways. We were always present, we were always there, but it just didn’t happen. I don’t think you can’t fault the effort.”<\/p>\n

Looking forward, Thomas sees plenty of positives throughout the season to suggest that the British team can bounce back. In an honest admission, Thomas gave an insight into the team’s mentality.<\/p>\n

“It hurts, but when you’re suffering, that’s when it makes you really hone in on wanting to improve,” he said. “The season as a whole, up to this point, I think is definitely a big, big positive. This month was hard, but I think we need to keep focused and keep pushing forward.<\/p>\n

“You make a new plan, you get up, and you go after it, and you make it happen. So that’s kind of the attitude I’m going to bring to it; that’s the attitude that the team has, that the staff and the riders have. That’s what we’re going to try and do.”<\/p>\n

Thomas and INEOS hope to bounce back<\/p>\n

“We’ll look at everything around the race, from coaching, nutrition, tactics, selection was tough because it was so changeable at the end. We’ll look at every domain and just continue to push and look to improve in every aspect of it. That’s what it’s about. We go from there.”<\/p>\n

The 2027 Tour kicks off in the United Kingdom, and Thomas knows that the big target is to perform in the home country of the team.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got the Grand D\u00e9part, that’s exciting,” he added. “We start in Edinburgh, then Liverpool, and then into Wales. It’s going to be unbelievable. It’s massive for the team, massive for the UK.<\/p>\n

“We’re a British team and we want to go there and perform and really capitalise on it. That’s a really good target to have. I think everyone’s super motivated for that. I, for one, can’t wait. Let’s get after it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Focusing on stage wins, Egan Bernal picked up their best GC placing in 20th while their breakaway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,52530,200887,101,6549,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-geraint-thomas","tag-netcompany-ineos","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716628","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=716628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}