Tom 'Pidders' Pidcock

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Strawberry_Jams

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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.

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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
 
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'It was a lot closer, but not close enough' - Tom Pidcock challenges Tadej Pogačar at Strade Bianche

Q36.5 rider hails his best ever Classics performance after duelling with Slovenian
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Pidcock admitted that Pogačar seemed to have incredible, Terminator-level resilience.
"I don't think it affected him so much. He looks pretty hurt, but it would affect me more," he admitted.
"Is he superhuman?" Pidcock was asked.
"You have to cut him open when he dies and see…" Pidcock joked.
"What do you expect to find?"
"Heart, lungs, the normal sh*t," he joked.
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I tuned into the live broadcast just prior to Pog's crash, so today I watched the replay from the beginning of coverage (100 km to go) to the crash. I was pretty impressed with Pidcock. He was constantly glued to Pogacar's wheel like a lamprey from Kms 100 to 77 or so. And it seemed like he went to the front when Wellens (or another UAE rider) started to flag while pulling the group as a way to already be at higher pace when Pog accelerated. Then doggedly hung on for that first Pogacar attack. He wasn't having any of this "we can't control what Pogacar does so we'll just ride our own race" attitude. I thought he shouldn't have worked as much when Pogacar returned, but at that point he wasn't going to beat him. I appreciate Pidcock giving us more of a race dynamic even if the outcome was still pretty certain.
 
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Mayomaniac said:
Has to go full Gerro and wheelsuck Pogacar in one day races instead of pulling. Other than that, clearly getting better after getting out of the British septic tank.
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It's just not in his nature to wheelsuck. You've got riders that just want to race (Pogi, Pidcock, MVDP, Evenepoel, and many others), and they will always do their part. And others will ride more "intelligently", but also more boring.

He did an amazing race Saturday, and got the most out of it. He said beforehand I'm going to sit on Pogi's wheel and do everything in my power to keep it. And he did. Big props to him.
 
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Berniece said:
It's just not in his nature to wheelsuck. You've got riders that just want to race (Pogi, Pidcock, MVDP, Evenepoel, and many others), and they will always do their part. And others will ride more "intelligently", but also more boring.

He did an amazing race Saturday, and got the most out of it. He said beforehand I'm going to sit on Pogi's wheel and do everything in my power to keep it. And he did. Big props to him.
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Agreed, I'm not sure what else he could have done. And I think he pushed Pog into a mistake on that curve. Not that he was intending to crash him out of the race but I Pog probably fears Pidcock's descending abilities.

I would not have taken any turns with Pog, but I agree that it's probably not in his makeup to wheelsuck.
 
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Bolder said:
Agreed, I'm not sure what else he could have done. And I think he pushed Pog into a mistake on that curve. Not that he was intending to crash him out of the race but I Pog probably fears Pidcock's descending abilities.

I would not have taken any turns with Pog, but I agree that it's probably not in his makeup to wheelsuck.
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I'm not sure if Pogacar was afraid of the descending skills of Pidcock. I think he wanted to show off, to show he also was a decent descender, a bit of a pissing contest. It's just silly to do that against the best descender in the peloton.
 
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Dont think Pog was tryna show off or put pressure on Pidcock at all descending wise.

Think he just misjudge that turn, where riders at both the womens race and Kwiatkowski also crashed at.

Maybe the turn itself was constructed in a tricky way or there was gravel on the road... either way he just went too fast and slipped.

The section was about to start where he had intended to attack again, which he later did the second time. Pidcock was tired but had done well to go with him at Sante Marie. A very good and respectable performance from Pidcock.
 
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Dont think Pog was tryna show off or put pressure on Pidcock at all descending wise.

Think he just misjudge that turn, where riders at both the womens race and Kwiatkowski also crashed at.

Maybe the turn itself was constructed in a tricky way or there was gravel on the road... either way he just went too fast and slipped.

The section was about to start where he had intended to attack again, which he later did the second time. Pidcock was tired but had done well to go with him at Sante Marie. A very good and respectable performance from Pidcock.
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I agree - I wonder if the corner wasn't well signposted to tell riders how tight the turn was. Or maybe Pogacar just took a bad line...Possibly there was another corner immediately beforehand which Pidcock had taken better, allowing him to better line up the corner where Pog crashed...?

But if you watch the replay from the camera bike behind them, you can see that Pogacar enters the corner in the middle of the road (or even slightly to the left of middle), and then had to turn extra sharply when the corner continued to tighten, and went beyond his grip levels (possibly exacerbated by some gravel on the road, or maybe braking while cornering).

In contrast, Pidcock enters the corner on the far right of the road and cuts the apex, so isn't cornering quite so hard or banking his bike so much.

Line choice is part of cornering & descending skill of course, so perhaps highlights some difference between the two of them...
 
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Davesta said:
I agree - I wonder if the corner wasn't well signposted to tell riders how tight the turn was. Or maybe Pogacar just took a bad line...Possibly there was another corner immediately beforehand which Pidcock had taken better, allowing him to better line up the corner where Pog crashed...?

But if you watch the replay from the camera bike behind them, you can see that Pogacar enters the corner in the middle of the road (or even slightly to the left of middle), and then had to turn extra sharply when the corner continued to tighten, and went beyond his grip levels (possibly exacerbated by some gravel on the road, or maybe braking while cornering).

In contrast, Pidcock enters the corner on the far right of the road and cuts the apex, so isn't cornering quite so hard or banking his bike so much.

Line choice is part of cornering & descending skill of course, so perhaps highlights some difference between the two of them...
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Pidcock also shaked his head afterwards because he thought what were you doing. Unnecessary risk taking
 
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