Tom 'Pidders' Pidcock

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Pidders will take a break now and will be back inBrabantse Pijl and the Ardennes classics. Think he will do well in them, seems to be on a higher level this year. But he will be up against Remco in Brabantse and Remco/Pog in the Ardennes. So it will be really tough to get a win.

 
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The positioning battle into the Cipressa. Although no-one would've predicted it, there was a small crash at the bottom and a few riders were stuck behind it as well. Pidcock was one, and with a fall costing at least some 10 seconds at such a key point where UAE Team Emirates - XRG decided to go all-out, it was impossible to get back to the front of the peloton in time for Tadej Pogacar's expected attack.

"289 km of racing with space for a few mistakes. Today, we saw ourselves on the other side of luck at the foot of Cipressa, with a small crash involving Tom Pidcock before attacks kicked off, we were on the back foot," the team wrote on social media.
 
He was pretty much exactly in 30th position at the bottom of the climb, the Cofidis rider who crashed was right in front of him. Pogacar was around 40th, incidentally. It's a shame really, I think he could have stayed with Pogacar with his Strade legs.
Yep.
If I had to guess on the order entering Cipressa (the blue jerseys are hard to tell apart):

  1. Marcellusi
  2. Honore
  3. Laurence
  4. Ganna
  5. Philipsen
  6. Albanese
  7. Hermans
  8. -Astana (Ballerini?)
  9. Gregoire
  10. -Ag2r
  11. Van der Poel
  12. -EF (Powless?)
  13. -Visma (Kooij?)
  14. Trentin (EDIT: It was in fact him who pulled off in front of Pluimers and made a gap which Gregoire jumped across with Van Gils on his wheel, the latter had to let go again after the corner)
  15. Wellens
  16. Sweeny
  17. Pluimers
  18. Campenaerts
  19. -Israel
  20. -Astana
  21. -Jayco (Bling?)
  22. -Astana
  23. -Israel
  24. -Jayco
  25. -Visma (Tulett?)
  26. Pedersen
  27. -Cofidis, crash
  28. -Israel
  29. APP, crash
  30. Kirsch
  31. Pidcock
  32. -RedBull
  33. -Israel
  34. -Bahrain
  35. -EF
  36. -Tudor (Alaphilippe?)
  37. -Intermarche
  38. -RedBull
  39. -Q36.5
  40. -Visma
  41. -Lotto
  42. Pogi
  43. -Ag2r
  44. -Visma
  45. -RedBull
  46. Aranburu
  47. -(B)DSM
  48. -Ag2r
  49. -Vini Fantini
  50. -Lidl-Trek
  51. Narváez
  52. -Bahrain
  53. -Bahrain
  54. -QS
  55. -Uno-X
  56. -Intermarche
  57. -(B)DSM
  58. -Alpecin
  59. -Bahrain
  60. -UAE
  61. -Visma
  62. -Lidl-Trek
  63. -Ag2r
  64. -Lotto
  65. -Intermarche
  66. -RedBull
  67. -FdJ
  68. -Uno-X
  69. -Arkea
  70. -Lidl-Trek
  71. Geniets
 
so...

Vuelta a Andalucia
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Strade Bianche
Tirreno-Adriatico
Milan-San Remo

Brabantse Pijl
Amstel Gold Race
La Flèche Wallonne
Liège-Bastogne-Liège

quite a light schedule considering, thought he might have done Jaen considering he's there a couple of days later. No cobbles after Omloop, relatively the same as last year.
Probably indicates the team have been told they are doing the Giro.

???
Giro
British Road Champs?
(not at Ineos/TdF anymore helps this)
MTB Summer (although really doesn't fit with worlds being during Vuelta which has been talked about)
Dates available:
Val di Sole June 22
Andorra July 13

Vuelta GC

Italian Classics

Wildcard for Giro and Vuelta now. Will apparently go for stages at the giro and the talk from Bogaerts was to go for GC at the Vuelta before they got the widcard.

The MTB Worlds are at the same time. I assume they would have gone with the MTB if they didn't get the wildcard but now they have, I suspect the decision has been made for them. So no battle with MvdP.
 
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