{"id":161867,"date":"2020-09-24T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/24\/geraint-thomas-insists-he-has-nothing-to-prove-at-road-world-championships\/"},"modified":"2020-09-24T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T13:46:10","slug":"geraint-thomas-insists-he-has-nothing-to-prove-at-road-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=161867","title":{"rendered":"Geraint Thomas insists he has nothing to prove at road world championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas says missing Tour gave him a \u2018new lease of life\u2019Welshman is tackling road world time trial for the first timeA slimline Geraint Thomas has insisted that he has nothing to prove to Sir Dave Brailsford as he attempts to end his season with the perfect tonic. The 34-year-old Welshman believes he has rediscovered his best form after being dropped for the Tour de France \u2013 and says that will shine through at the world championship time trial in Monza on Friday and by justifying favouritism at the Giro d\u2019Italia when it starts in Sicily in eight days\u2019 time. Related: Climate of suspicion returns to Tour de France to dampen celebrations Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/sep\/24\/geraint-thomas-insists-he-has-nothing-to-prove-at-road-world-championships-cycling\" target=\"_blank\">Geraint Thomas insists he has nothing to prove at road world championships<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas says missing Tour gave him a \u2018new lease of life\u2019Welshman is tackling road world time trial for the first timeA slimline Geraint Thomas has insisted that he has nothing to prove to Sir Dave Brailsford as he attempts to end his season with the perfect tonic. The 34-year-old Welshman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}