Tom Pidcock is one of the outstanding young assets that the new cycling. At the age of 23, he points to talent in a generation led by Tadej Pogacar, who was succeeded this Saturday as Vendor of the Strade Bianchethe Italian race identified with a white land called ‘sterrato’, in a similar way to what the Slovenian phenomenon did in 2022. He attacked 50 kilometers from the finish line and alone resisted the pursuers who never stopped. they just agreed as the little british cyclist raced his way to glory.
Pidcock is far from being unknown in the world of cycling, aim higher and higher, and is the third guest in a cycling environment dominated by Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert among the riders capable of distinguishing themselves in all the fields in which they participate: cyclocross, mountain biking, traditional road cycling or the nascent gravel . Here is the Pidcock case. He is the current Olympic mountain bike champion and in 2022 he was the cyclo-cross world champion and the winner of the Alpe d’Huez stage, in the Tour, where a technical descent to Galibier was marked to frame in any cycling school .
He is one more among the runners who reside in Andorra and this Saturday he scored his first great classic, in a Strade Bianche, the youngest among the one-day races that shine on the World Tour circuit, or the first division of cycling, and that excites for the slopes riddled with stone and earth among the most beautiful places in Tuscany. And as if that were not enough, it ends in the medieval and extremely beautiful Piazza del Campo in the beautiful city of Siena.
It was there that Pidcock appeared alone after an escape where epic was intermingled and on very rare occasions, agony, do they get it or not? Like a tiny mouse that ran with speed and mischief, convinced of his strength, and that resisted the squad of cats that was chasing him. There they attacked with jerks, but as no one trusted the adversaryin the end they left the house without sweeping for the greater benefit of the British runner, who in no case fainted during his escape.
And he won, to succeed Pogacar and to show that this year he is aiming high in the classics, even in one-week races because grand tours are not his thing, but the one-day epic like the one set at Strade Bianche where Pello Bilbao arrived in seventh position. In the women’s race the victory was taken by the Dutch Demi Vollering. Her compatriot, top favorite and Movistar leader Annemiek van Vleuten crossed the finish line in fifth place.
