LONDON - Former Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas has raised £300,000 for Britain's National Health Service after a 36-hour indoor cycling stint.
The suspension of the road race calendar prompted Thomas to set himself a challenge which he likened to completing eight or nine stages of the Tour itself."I am going to have a week off to recover from this. It was 36 hours in the saddle over three days which would normally be a big training week for me.
"On a turbo the longest was three hours and there is a lot of difference from that and riding outside where you have the scenery and downhill." — Geraint Thomas April 17, 2020 The 33-year-old, a two-time Olympic pursuit gold medallist, added there were particularly personal as well as general fund-raising reasons for his effort of endurance.