Tom Pidcock has won world championships, Olympic gold, and a Tour de France stage but has never finished higher than 13th overall in a Grand Tour. Pidcock targets a stage win at the Vuelta a España and aims for a top-10 overall as a secondary objective. Coach Kurt Bogaerts frames the top-10 pursuit as a way to sustain motivation for Pidcock and the team's staff and to test Pidcock's limits. Pidcock arrives at the Vuelta better prepared and refreshed after a less-than-ideal Giro build. The campaign intends to focus teammates, staff, and details across three weeks.
Great Britain's Tom Pidcock (Q36.5)has won world titles, Olympic Gold Medals, and a stage of the Tour de France up the iconic Alpe d'Huez, but he's never finished higher than 13th overall in a Grand Tour. So why does a top 10 in one of cycling's prestigious three-week tests, on this occasion the Vuelta a España, continue to be a goal?
I think the outside world makes out that we have been chasing it, but we never really chased it with preparation. And it's a healthy thing to try to find your limits, Bogaerts told Cyclingnews five days before the Vuelta's start. It's something that Tom didn't accelerate in, and he likes to challenge himself - he's won one-day races, he's won a stage in a grand tour, and what's more than this is trying to perform in the GC.
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