On Saturday Tom Roberts finished his shift at one of Cardiff's hospitals and was on his way home to rest. But when he got to the place where he had parked his bicycle, he had an unpleasant surprise: it was not where he had left it. Someone had broken the security lock and taken it away, without a trace. Not even in a crisis of this caliber do the most despicable attitudes of society stop completely.

Disgusted, this Welsh anesthetist walked home, a journey he took to report the theft on his Twitter account, more as relief than expecting something from someone: "For the person who stole my bicycle while working in the unit intensive care: I hope you enjoy it. "

Immediately, he received dozens of messages of encouragement, of condemnation for what had happened, of anger towards the thief. 45 minutes after the tweet, an unexpected response came. "Write to me, by private friend," said Luke Rowe , team runner Ineos, a fundamental gregarious player in the team's recent successes in the Tour de France. Without their work on the plain, the recent victories of Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal are not explained.

21 minutes after Rowe asked to speak privately, Tom Roberts wrote a new message: "Thank you so much Luke Rowe for the generous gift of a new bike. I really appreciate it!" It wasn't going to be the only offer received. Chris Boardman , former record-time man and one of the best time trialists of the 90s, also offered his help.

"I had heard of them, they sounded familiar to me, but I didn't really know who they were," Roberts explained to the BBC in an interview in which he said that Rowe not only offered him a bicycle, but asked him about their height and because of the type of bike he was used to. Answered the questions, Rowe promised to send him a new bicycle with which Roberts can continue going to his hospital to render his essential service to Welsh society.

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