{"id":482155,"date":"2026-02-15T19:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482155\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:25:09","slug":"im-not-going-to-talk-about-how-to-beat-people-but-tom-pidcock-believes-he-can-take-on-tadej-pogacar-at-strade-bianche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482155\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I\u2019m not going to talk about how to beat people&#8221; but Tom Pidcock believes he can take on Tadej Pogacar at Strade Bianche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s the only one. They have similar conditions; it\u2019s a very similar type of race. I\u2019m curious to compete in it,&#8221; Pidcock said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/ciclismo\/2026\/02\/15\/tom-pidcock-gran-estrella-clasica-jaen-paraiso-interior-marca-carrera-me-conviene.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marca<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s the best race for me at this time of year. I\u2019m starting my season in Spain, and this race fits perfectly with what I want for myself.\u201dWith the Vuelta a Murcia, Jaen and the Vuelta a Andalucia, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/pinarello-q365-pro-cycling-team\" title=\"Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team<\/a> rider will be building a strong racing base ahead of what is one of his major goals of the spring and entire season. There, he was the winner in 2023; and last year he was the only rider who managed to give Tadej Pogacar some sort of competition, matching his early attack on Monte Sante Marie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think it\u2019s the only one. They have similar conditions; it\u2019s a very similar type of race. I\u2019m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,244451,784,244452,85,177851,6494,63570],"class_list":{"0":"post-482155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-clasica-jaen-paraiso-interior","11":"tag-cycling","12":"tag-pinarello-q36-5-pro-cycling-team","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-strade-bianche","15":"tag-tadej-pogacar","16":"tag-tom-pidcock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}