Cycling, Pidcock: "No Tour this year, but I hope to do Giro and Vuelta"

Rome, January 16, 2025 - A problem has been solved, such as the poor feeling with the Ineos Grenadiers, on the horizon for tom pidcock others could be envisaged: the honeymoon with the Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team already presents some unknowns related to the program in particular for the Grand Tours.  

Pidcock's statements

  Without wild cards, in fact, a formation Professional like the Swiss one risks being left holding the proverbial hot potato in the category races World Tour: a problem also for the Tudor Pro Cycling Team di Julian Alaphilippe e Marc HirschiThere is no official confirmation yet, but the Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team It already seems cut off from the Tour de France: no big deal for pidcock, That for the 2025 seems to have other goals, however. "I would like to play two Grand Tours in the same season, which would be an important step for my growth: in 2026 then I would like to go back to Tour de France". Clear ideas for the British, who probably would like to once and for all remove any doubts about his real abilities in the general classification, despite his explicit declarations that his preferences are different. "However, there will be many things on the horizon this year. I have strong support behind me and I am remodeling my training, which makes me confident that I will see the best version of myself again soon. To make the ranking in a Great Tour all the pieces of the mosaic must fit together perfectly: for example, I have to improve in the time trial, but I'm working on it. My biggest dream though - he concludes pidcock - it remains to be able to win a Classical Monument one day". Who knows, maybe it will happen this year, because in the menu of the class of '99, apart from Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico, AlUla Tour, Tour of Andalusia, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and maybe) Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, there is the Milan-Sanremo, with the Northern classics and those of Ardennes which in turn have not yet been discarded.

Benoot's statements

  Le Classics they are not even missing from the menu of Tiesj Benoot, which to the microphones of RTBF tried to clarify the most important objectives to pursue. "I will start the season in Spain, in Classic Jaén: then I will be at the Back to the Algarve, to Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne. I will continue in the E3 Sax Classic and in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but among the objectives, mine and the team's, there are also the Tour of Flanders , Paris-Roubaix, which are competitions that Wout van aert is capable of winning. Let's hope we have less bad luck than the 2024 and I also think about what happened to jonas vingegaard. Personally - concludes the Belgian - when I fell I discovered another strength linked to the things you can do when you can't ride a bike. Even Wout e Jonas they have shown strength and that they can return to their usual levels."

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