Team Sky's Geraint Thomas targeting Tour de France yellow jersey
Welshman spoke ahead of Sunday's prestigious Paris-Roubaix one-day classic
Team Sky rider Geraint Thomas says he dreams of one day wearing again the yellow jersey on the Tour de France. Guillaume Horcajuelo / EPA
Geraint Thomas is longing for wearing the Tour de France yellow pullover once more, in spite of the fact that he wouldn't be drawn on whether he hopes to supplant Chris Froome as Team Sky pioneer.
Froome's cooperation at July's Tour is in question because of an antagonistic scientific finding in a doping test amid a year ago's Vuelta an Espana.
On the off chance that Froome is restricted and misses the Tour, Thomas would likely turn into the Sky pioneer for the race.
"Where I sit in that group, I don't know yet. I'm simply focused on ensuring I get to the beginning line," Thomas said on Saturday, in front of Sunday's lofty Paris-Roubaix one-day exemplary.
Thomas donned yellow for four days finally year's Tour in the wake of winning the opening preface however he lost it to Froome after Stage 5 and slammed out of the race four days after the fact while as yet sitting second by and large.
The initial nine phases in the current year's Tour are either level or uneven - as opposed to rocky - with the ninth stage completing at Roubaix subsequent to taking in some bone-crunching cobbles.
It is territory that suits the all-rounder Thomas, who has desires of wearing yellow once more.
"That would be extremely decent," he said. "I wouldn't turn that down, on the off chance that it happened that would be awesome."
The Welshman has transformed himself into a phase racer having beforehand exceeded expectations in the one-day cobbled works of art.
In 2014, he completed seventh in Paris-Roubaix and eighth at the Tour of Flanders, the two noteworthy "Landmark" cobbled works of art.
He won't be among the top picks for Sunday's 257km "Damnation of the North", which he says is harder than the Tour of Flanders because of the condition of the cobbles in northern France.
"It's very surprising to Belgium," he said of the 54km of cobbles. "This is a considerable measure rougher.
"In Roubaix, it resembles somebody's simply come and hurled a heap of stones out of the back of a truck."
In any case, Thomas, 31, is anticipating it and trusts in Sky's odds.
"You require a touch of fortunes and it's fun since it's not as controlled as the Grand Tours," he said.
"There's a positive sentiment in the group. We went out Thursday and it was truly sloppy however with the sun it'll be dried out chiefly now.
"There will be a tailwind which will help, and we have a solid group, and in the event that we believe each other we can get a decent outcome."
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