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Thomas said the Giro is a “big target this year” and he will be “going to go all in for that”.<\/p>\n
His race ended in agonising fashion last year as Roglic won the penultimate stage and after 80 hours of racing, beat Thomas by just 15 seconds. <\/p>\n
“After the way it ended, I’d just like to go back and just get stuck into it,” Thomas said.<\/p>\n
“Obviously Pog is riding and there will be a load of other good GC [general classification] guys. It’s a big challenge and I’m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n
“But that’s only part one of the plan really because then it’s kind of been decided to try and go to the Tour.”<\/p>\n
Thomas raced both in 2017 but crashed out in both. <\/p>\n
“Hopefully this year’s a bit better than that,” the 2018 Tour de France winner added.<\/p>\n
“I really wanted to do that [the Tour] and I really wanted to do the Giro, so I was speaking to the team in December and they were like ‘yeah we’ll back you’, but we need to get it cleared by Dave [Brailsford] and Jim [Ratcliffe], the big bosses basically.<\/p>\n
“They’re all for it so happy days.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n