Geraint Thomas

“My wife, she puts up with a lot: we're training hard, you're tired, you're not eating a lot, so you get a bit grumpy, so she does put up with a lot - fair play.”

“I rode for Maindy Flyers, a local kids' club from Cardiff. We started travelling across the country doing races, but Manchester was the first stage race I did.”

“The last thing I want to do, even in the off-season, is traipse around shops looking for clothes: it's not my thing.”

“Winning that team-pursuit Olympic gold medal was unbelievable.”

“In Britain, we have this attitude that people are one-hit wonders. If it proves that way, I'd rather have had that one hit than not at all.”