Tao Geoghegan Hart buys his younger brother a car after losing Giro d'Italia 2020 wager

ByEurosport

Updated 15/11/2020 at 11:28 GMT

Bede told his older brother Tao that he would win the Giro. Tao said "don't be ridiculous" in response and bet he would buy him a car if he pulled off the remarkable feat. Just days later the 25-year-old Brit pulled on the pink jersey in Milan and was therefore forced to splash some of his €300,000 prize money on a new car.

Tao Geoghegan Hart has bought his brother a car after a losing a bet to him that he would win the Giro d'Italia.

Tao and his brother visited the car showroom in Essex this week to buy a blue Volkswagen.

"Score settled," the Ineos-Grenadiers rider wrote on Instagram alongside an image of the car.

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"Have you heard about the bet I made with my other brother? It’s cost me a car, winning the Giro," Geoghegan Hart said in a Pinarello store in London last week where he was presented with a commemorative pink bike.

"Stage 15 I bet him that, 'there’s no chance I’m going to win this, don’t be ridiculous, I’ll buy you a new car if I win'. And yeah."

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