NEWS SUMMARY: SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1986
Date: 25 May 1986
International
Geraint Thomas Verjaardag, Geboortedatum
Geraint Howell Thomas, ( GHERR-eyent, Welsh: [ˈɡɛraint]; born 25 May 1986) is a Welsh former professional racing cyclist who rode for UCI WorldTeam Netcompany INEOS Cycling Team, Wales and Great Britain. He is one of the few riders in the modern era to achieve significant elite success as both a track and road rider, with notable victories in the velodrome, in one-day racing and in stage racing. On the track, he won three World Championships (2007, 2008, and 2012), and two Olympic gold medals (2008 and 2012), while on the road he won the 2018 Tour de France becoming the first Welshman and third British rider to win it.
His early successes were in track cycling, in which he was a specialist in the team pursuit. He won three World Championships and was Olympic gold medallist twice, in 2008 and 2012. Thomas had an early win on the road at the 2004 Paris–Roubaix Juniors and later had a senior victory at the 2010 British National Road Race Championships. Leaving track cycling to focus solely on the road, he subsequently found success in both one-day/classic races such as the 2014 Commonwealth Games road race and the 2015 E3 Harelbeke, and in one week stage races, most notably at the 2016 Paris–Nice, the 2017 Tour of the Alps, the 2018 Critérium du Dauphiné, the 2021 Tour de Romandie and the 2022 Tour de Suisse.
In cycling's grand tours, Thomas was initially a lead domestique to Chris Froome in his victories. He won the first stage of the 2017 Tour de France, an individual time trial, to become the first Welshman to wear the Tour's yellow jersey. He later crashed in that race, as well as in the 2017 Giro d'Italia. Thomas became the first Welshman to win the Tour de France when he won the race in 2018. He gained the yellow jersey by winning stage 11, extended his lead by winning stage 12, and retained the lead for the remainder of the race. In the same year he won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, becoming the first Welshman to win the award since Ryan Giggs in 2009. In 2019, he confirmed his Grand Tour pedigree when he reached the podium again, having finished runner-up in the Tour de France behind Team INEOS teammate Egan Bernal. In 2022, Thomas became the first Welshman to win the Tour de Suisse and later that year recorded another podium finish at the Tour de France, placing third. A fourth grand tour podium, and a first outside of the Tour de France, was won in 2023 as Thomas took second place in the Giro d'Italia, losing the race lead to Primož Roglič on the penultimate day. A fifth grand tour podium was secured in the following Giro, less than half a minute behind runner-up Danny Martinez, but almost ten minutes behind winner Tadej Pogacar. After the race, Thomas suggested he would no longer race for general classification at the grand tours.
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25 mei 1986 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♊. Het was de 144e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Ronald Reagan.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 39 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zondag 25 mei 2025, 363 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op maandag 25 mei 2026, in 1 dagen. Je hebt 14.608 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 350.594 uur, of ongeveer 21.035.697 minuten, of ongeveer 1.262.141.820 seconden.
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25th of May 1986 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 25 mei 1986
CONTINENTAL VISIONARY: KENNETH ALLAN KRAGEN
Date: 26 May 1986
By Pauline Yoshihashi, Special To the New York Times
Pauline Yoshihashi
For Ken Kragen, the talent manager and promoter who orchestrated the Hands Across America event, staging spectacles for charity is nothing new. Mr. Kragen also headed USA for
THE UNTUCKED LOOK IS NEWS IN SHIRTS
Date: 25 May 1986
THE out shirttail is very in this year, especially among younger people. Good old-fashioned rebellion may have something to do with it, but more likely it's the influence of a couple of very up-to-the-moment pace-setters - the designer Claude Montana and the ''Miami Vice'' television series.
VIETNAM VETERANS HONORED BELATEDLY
Date: 25 May 1986
By States News Service
States Service
ALTHOUGH she has never been here to view the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Gloria Philhower of Denville had always assumed her son's name one of those etched on it. She was wrong.Her son, Charles Albert Philhower, a fireman's apprentice in the Navy, died outside the Presidentially approved war zone and was not included among the 58,022 names on the black granite wall.
Indian Museum At Crossroads
Date: 25 May 1986
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
FOR more than a decade, the Museum of the American Indian had sought to move from a too-small site in a seedy section of the Upper West Side, at Broadway and 155th Street, to a more appealing place where it could show its entire collection to visitors. There was hope last year that a solution was near.
Living a 'Dream' On the Run
Date: 25 May 1986
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
FOR 40 years, a German soldier who escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in New Mexico during World War II lived, as he put it, ''my own version of the American dream.'' He assumed a new name, married and became upwardly mobile as a ski instructor, tennis pro and contractor.
Battling Hooky: 2 Approaches
Date: 25 May 1986
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
TRUANCY was high at Memorial Junior High School in San Diego when the principal tried a desperation gambit in 1980 - a cash bonus for every pupil who showed up for school.
'Sleaze' and Strategy
Date: 25 May 1986
By Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr
Wayne King
Encouraged by the extensive news coverage being given to allegations of influence-peddling by former Reagan aides, the Democrats will try again in elections this year to revive the ''sleaze factor,'' this time tying it to the issue of trade deficits.