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Geraint Thomas

National Road Race Championships: Wiggins wins in another Team Sky 1-2-3

Britain's ProTeam gets clean sweep of podium for second year running, with Thomas 2nd and Kennaugh 3rd

Team Sky names Tour de France line-up, Wiggins, Thomas and Swift fly flag for GB

British team turns green with Rainforest Rescue kit for cycling's biggest race

Your chance to ride the Flanders cobbles with Geraint Thomas this August

Team Sky rider leads three-day trip to Belgium, and there's a museum tour with Freddy Maertens too

Geraint Thomas wins Bayern Rundfahrt to cap great week for Team Sky

Welshman celebrates turning 25 last week by taking his maiden stage race win

Giro d'Italia: Stage-by-stage preview with Team Sky's Geraint Thomas

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Giro d'Italia 2011 Map

The 2011 Giro d’Italia gets under way in Turin on Saturday, and some very tough stages particularly in the final week or so could see an epic battle develop for the maglia rosa – perhaps even going to the final day’s individual time trial in Milan. Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas, who rode the 2008 Giro with Barloworld, isn’t racing, but he’s looking forward to watching the action of what should be a thrilling three weeks’ racing every bit as much as the rest of us. Here’s our stage-by-stage guide to the race together with the British national champion’s expert analysis of the route.