{"id":77920,"date":"2026-06-05T05:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/77920\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:09:34","slug":"tom-pidcock-on-battling-pogacar-and-the-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/77920\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock on battling Poga\u010dar and the the tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Pidcock<\/a> has had a season of ups and downs. The Brit finished second in Milan-San Remo, where he was the only rider able to follow Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a>, but later crashed heavily in the Tour of Catalonia. He now seems to be slowly finding his form again and is preparing for his fourth Tour de France<\/a>. Speaking to The Guardian<\/a>, he discussed his season and the future.The year began excellently for Pidcock, with several podium finishes in Spain and, as the icing on the cake, his second place behind Poga\u010dar. Despite the Slovenian crashing before the Cipressa, the Brit still came within a tyre’s width of beating him. “Up the Poggio, when I was following his attack, it was like racing a zombie,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was white, white skinsuit, white shorts cut up, blood. He\u2019s a demon. It was incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brit had a lot of respect for the world champion\u2019s determination. \u201cHe could have easily thrown in a towel. He got up. And he still won the race. That was a really incredible thing.\u201d Still, Pidcock understands why people are getting tired of Poga\u010dar\u2019s dominance. \u201cYou have to embrace it and accept it, but they\u2019re not wrong, are they?\u201d he replies.<\/p>\n

Pidcock returned quickly from a heavy crash in Catalonia<\/p>\n

After his strong Milan-San Remo, things went wrong for the Pinarello-Q36.5 leader in the Tour of Catalonia. \u201cOnce I\u2019d got out of the ditch, I could get on the bike and I could kind of pedal,” he said. “My shoulder, my elbow and my hand initially hurt the most. I was like, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019ve definitely broken something here but maybe I haven\u2019t. I\u2019m going to finish the stage’.”<\/p>\n

In the end, Pidcock had indeed suffered fractures in the crash. \u201cMy knee was massive and I couldn\u2019t walk. I was just super lucky I didn\u2019t just explode it given the amount of bruising on both sides of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a short rehabilitation, the Brit returned sooner than expected. \u201cBut I actually felt all right on the bike. I was like: \u2018OK, let\u2019s go race. Why not?\u2019 And to be honest that\u2019s quite brave, because I\u2019m in the spotlight. I\u2019m showing myself up a little bit if I\u2019m not good. People expect me to perform.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pidcock\u2019s main goal is the world titleThe Brit is brave, as his rapid descending shows. He is rarely afraid of crashing. \u201cIt\u2019s part of what we do. Mistakes happen. In general, with anticipation, you can tell when something\u2019s going to go wrong,” he explains. “Also it\u2019s about where you\u2019re positioned in the peloton. If you\u2019re strong enough to be at the front, generally you\u2019re going to be safer. Or at the back, you\u2019re safe. In the middle, in the death zone, then you\u2019re asking for it. If there\u2019s a crash, there\u2019s no way out.<\/p>\n

“The Grand Tour thing doesn\u2019t really excite me”, claims Pidcock, but he’s very clear about his main goals on the road: “I want a Monument.” But I want to win the road worlds, because then I will have a world title in all three disciplines.\u201d The multi-talented rider already has world titles in cyclo-cross and mountain biking.<\/p>\n

Does Pidcock have retirement plans?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pidcock has many plans left in cycling. But has Pidcock thought about retirement plans?<\/p>\n

“For sure, I\u2019m going for three Olympic medals. My goal is to finish my career after five Olympics, so after the 2036 Olympic Games, I\u2019ll retire.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pidcock: ‘I can win a Grand Tour’Pidcock has not ruled out winning a Grand Tour either. “If I manage to win a Grand Tour it will be the biggest achievement in my career, because for me to concentrate for three weeks is difficult.,\u201d he says honestly. This year he will face Jonas Vingegaard, Paul Seixas and Poga\u010dar in the Tour, and the Brit believes he can make life difficult for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything I\u2019ve ever achieved in my career, I\u2019ve always imagined doing it first before I\u2019ve done it,” he says “I\u2019ve never done anything out of the blue, like magic. So having that stepping stone, I know I can be on the podium again.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying that I have the ability right now to beat Tadej and Seixas and Vingegaard. But in the right situation, I can see it happening. And with the right situation, I can win a Grand Tour.\u201d the Brit concludes confidently.<\/p>\n

Author: David Bavin-Hobbs<\/a> – [email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock has had a season of ups and downs. The Brit finished second in Milan-San Remo, where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[88,11100,16524,3636,4879,51],"class_list":["post-77920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-cycling","tag-pinarello-q36-5-pro-cycling","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-tom-pidcock","tag-tour-de-france","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116695778200144422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}