Welsh cyclist will be part of 120-strong peloton cycling 109-mile course through Wales
The farming village of Bancyfelin in the heart of Wales, with one pub, a post office and a tiny primary school, will be almost emptied tomorrow as cycling’s Tour of Britain rolls through the larger town of Carmarthen, five miles away.
The biggest draw in the peloton is the homecoming hero Geraint Thomas, whose dad Howell is from Bancyfelin, a community of just 300 people in the south-west of the country and where the family still has strong ties. The 32-year-old is back in the saddle in a meaningful race for the first time since breezing triumphantly down Paris’s Champs-Élysées, arms held aloft as the first Welsh winner of the Tour de France.
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