{"id":548771,"date":"2026-03-18T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548771\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:05:09","slug":"we-all-know-what-will-happen-on-the-cipressa-tom-pidcock-on-milan-sanremo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548771\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe all know what will happen on the Cipressa\u201d; Tom Pidcock on Milan-Sanremo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Pidcock<\/a> was not in action at Paris-Nice or Tirreno-Adriatico over the past week, but on Wednesday he showed in Milano-Torino that he is a rider to watch ahead of Milan-Sanremo. After his victory <\/a>on the Superga, the winning Brit of Pinarello-Q36.5 also cast an eye ahead to La Primavera. <\/p>\n

Pidcock was in control on the climb near Turin. On the first passage he was already alert when Primoz Roglic of Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe launched an initial probing move, and he was there again on the decisive final ascent. The Uno-X and Movistar riders kept the pace high there, but in the end Pidcock made the difference with a clear acceleration in the final 500 metres.<\/p>\n

That came after a week and a half without racing, something he definitely felt. \u201cIt was a strange day. It almost felt like the first race of the season. I felt the accelerations in my legs all day, but fortunately in the end I still had what I needed to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pidcock had Roglic in his sights<\/p>\n

\u201cPrimoz [Roglic] is hard to read. He stays seated the whole time,\u201d the Brit said of his biggest rival. \u201cI expected him to be good. I hesitated about attacking, but in the end I did it anyway and the timing was perfect. A win is a win. No win comes easily, so it\u2019s nice to take this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

In doing so, he handed Pinarello-Q36.5 a fine victory. \u201cThe plan was to take control of the race and keep the peloton together on the first climb. In the end I had to do that myself, after the team had looked after me all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"pidcock-roglic\"\/Pidcock hopes to follow in Cavendish\u2019s footsteps<\/p>\n

The Milano-Torino trophy was presented to him by a special guest. \u201cIt was nice to receive the prize from Mark Cavendish. He is the hero of British cycling, if not of cycling in recent years. It\u2019s great to still see him in the sport and to see him representing us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Cavendish in 2009, Pidcock now hopes to make his mark on Saturday in Milan-Sanremo. \u201cI think my legs are good. I\u2019m going to Milano-Sanremo with big ambitions, but it is one of the hardest races to win. I was good last year as well, but I crashed at the foot of the Cipressa,” echoed CyclingProNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo anything can happen there, but I hope I can compete for the top places. We all know what is going to happen on the Cipressa, so we will do our absolute best there,\u201d he said, referring to the expected attack from Tadej Pogacar on that climb in Milan-Sanremo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock was not in action at Paris-Nice or Tirreno-Adriatico over the past week, but on Wednesday he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,270711,245768,85,63570],"class_list":["post-548771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-milano-torino","tag-pinarello-q36-5-pro-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tom-pidcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548771","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=548771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}