Well Done Geoff Thomas

<table class="layoutTable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="layout" valign="top"><div class="article"><div class="articleText"><div class="articleHeadlineAndBody" id="articleHeadlineAndBody"><h3 class="headline">Geoff Finishes The Tour De France </h3><div class="lastEditDate" id="lastEditDate">Posted on:Wed 01 Aug 2007</div><div class="articleBody" id="articleBody"><p align="left">Former Eagles midfielder Geoff Thomas arrived at the Champs Elys&eacute;es yesterday having completed one of the world's toughest sporting challenges, the Tour de France. Geoff has been accompanied on his venture to raise money for The Geoff Thomas Foundation by a team of cancer survivors. </p>

Coming to the end of the 21-day, 2400-mile cycling challenge was an emotional experience for the Geoff Thomas Foundation team and their friends and family who greeted them in Paris yesterday. </p>

Throat cancer survivor Dave Granger from Evesham in Gloucestershire, who lived on a diet of custard throughout the ride, said: &quot;It is exactly a year today since I was diagnosed, so to complete such an immense feat on this day is particularly special for me.&quot; </p>

During celebrations in Paris last night, Geoff thanked his fellow team- mates in saying: &quot;Your achievement represents the essence of the Geoff Thomas Foundation: showing others just what they are capable of, giving people who face cancer hope for their future and creating a united front to fight the disease.&quot; </p>

Geoff has pledged to fund research nurses at five leukaemia centres across the UK: London, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford and Birmingham. Geoff was lucky enough to find treatment for his leukaemia through a successful bone marrow transplant from his sister. However, there are still many people for whom a suitable treatment cannot be found, which is why funding from the Geoff Thomas Foundation is so important. </p>

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well done

everyone who took part,and done without physical enhancing drugs.they have shown the so called professional riders how it should be done,with guts and determination.

 

Brilliant

been away camping so hadnt heard that, wonder how Ian Wright did, he was accompanying GT

 

well he was there, here's a piccie from the website: http://www.geoffthomasfoundation.com/images/full/IMG_1063.JPG

 

and here's wrightie's 'diary'

http://www.geoffthomasfoundation.com/diary11.html

 

And despite picking up a chest infection while in the Pyrenees

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