Tom 'Pidders' Pidcock

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hayneplane said:
It was on the cards for him to lose 3-4 minutes today but he showed real tenacity to stick in and haul himself closer to the podium rivals by the end of the climb and lose a respectable amount of time.
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That didn't happen because everyone TTed up Angliru.
It's the smarter and easiest way to get a good time on it.
 
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Dazed and Confused said:
As a fan of race action, its a pity when the placement games takes so much priority. Could potentially have won the stage and taken some time today. We really need brave riders these days.
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If he races passively in future GTs I would also be more critical. But in this Vuelta I keep thinking that’s he’s in very rarefied air for and may not have a good sense of how hard he can go without blowing up. After all, the conventional wisdom ( at least on this forum) was that he couldn’t hang in the high mountains over 3 weeks.
 
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TP says he's 'confident not complacent' about a podium, supposedly his best TT performance today.

Britain’s Tom Pidcock is feeling confident of a podium place in La Vuelta after passing a vital test on stage 18 to extend his third-place lead by three seconds in Valladolid.

Thursday’s 12.2km time-trial had been shortened from 27km due to safety concerns around pro-Palestine demonstrations, just as stage 11 had been truncated in Bilbao last week 3km before the end because of protesters lining the road at the finish line.

Pidcock, 26, had felt he was the rider to have lost the most when that stage was neutralised, having managed to drop both João Almeida, who is second overall, and Jonas Vingegaard, the race leader, on the final steep climb, feeling he could have won the day if it were not for the organiser’s decision.

“After Bilbao that stage took a lot out of me mentally to deal with it and I think I suffered at the last part of the second week, but this week I feel like I did in the first part of the race, I feel super good,” he said after Thursday’s stage. “I am definitely confident [about finishing on the podium], but I’m not getting complacent.”

Since Bilbao, Pidcock has maintained his strong form and was second on the summit finish on stage 17. But there was something of a question mark over his time-trialling ability. Stage 18 was never one he would win, but he managed to tick off one more box on the way to a first grand-tour podium finish by riding a solid effort and now sits 39sec ahead of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s Jai Hindley — extending the gap by three seconds — with just one last real challenge to come on Saturday.

“I think that was probably my best ever time-trial looking at the numbers I was doing,” he said. “I can be pretty happy. We didn’t focus at all on the time-trial before [La Vuelta], we just wanted to improve my climbing. I felt super strong. It’s the first time I’ve been in this situation. For me to finish on the podium is bigger than a stage win.”
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