Cardiff comprehensive school that helped grow three British legends
GERAINT Thomas is the latest British sporting hero to have attended the same Cardiff school. Former Wales rugby union captain Sam Warburton and football star Gareth Bale are also ex- pupils of Whitchurch High School. Steve Williams, the PE teacher who coached all three stars at the school, said: ‘I don’t know where all this is going to stop. It is just incredible. ‘This is really up in the stratosphere of sporting achievement. To have three like this is just incredible. What can you say? Wow! I’m not sure there is anything to compare it with is there? I don’t think Hollywood could have come up with it. You could not have written it.’ Thomas, 32, is three years older than Bale and Warburton. But just like them he shared a love for all school sports and excelled in athletics. I’ll never forget it, and I still see it now, how Geraint ran down that home straight in the final of the 1500 metres,’ Mr Williams said. Mr Williams said he found it impossible to choose a favourite from the celebrated trio. ‘I don’t think you can say which one was the best, they were all tremendous athletes,’ he said. ‘But what is really pleasing is that they are all good guys. They are tremendous role models.’