I agree he has the potential to be up there with the big boys.... Cycling has changed with Pogacar, Roglic etc.JAFO wrote:The press reporting would have you think Tom Pidcock was new to cycling, and the result was a complete surprise. I thought he had a favourite's chance. For me the section (end of lap 4 or 5, I think) where he slowed and dropped back to third through the feeding zone to have a look at the 2 swiss riders, before overtaking them again on the first hill, and then powering on was a clear sign he was the strongest. That's the sort of manoeuvre you see from the greatest road cyclists.
He made a much-heralded instant smash in his first season on the world tour already, placing highly in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, and the Strade Bianchi, then winning the Brabantse Pijl from Wout van Aert, and narrowly losing a photo finish for the Amstel Gold Race to van Aert. van Aert wowed in the just finished Tour de France.
Pidcock is right up there with van Aert, Remco Evenepoel, and van der Poel as potential Tour De France winners, although Tadej Pogacar, Egan Bernal and others may have have something to say about that. I imagine he would have gone close in the road race that Carapaz won on Saturday. He said he wanted to do the road rave and the MTB next time.
Regarding the women's race, the Dutch team were so powerful no other team were prepared to help them chase down the breakaway and subsequently unable to bring them back on their own.
Regarding radios, they would still be aware of the time gap through other means
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