{"id":51409,"date":"2025-08-07T06:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51409\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T06:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:39:09","slug":"i-can-still-make-a-lot-of-progress-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51409\/","title":{"rendered":"I can still make a lot of progress there"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Pidcock<\/a> is back! The 26-year-old Brit will return to racing on Friday in Norway. The Q36.5 rider is thus rebuilding his form ahead of his big goal for the fall: the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a>. Pidcock spoke to Marca<\/a> about his expectations for the coming period, also weighing in on the debate surrounding safety in cycling.With the European mountain biking title in his pocket, Pidcock will make his road comeback on Thursday. After the Giro d’Italia, the Brit only rode the brand new Andorra Morabanc Cl\u00e0ssica, meaning he has not competed on the road for about a month and a half. In Norway, the Q36.5 rider will begin the second part of his road season. \u201cThe third stage will be decisive. But it will be difficult to control the race,\u201d he said, looking ahead to the Arctic Race of Norway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It will be a build-up to the Vuelta, which starts later this month in Turin. \u201cI can still make a lot of progress in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a; I feel fresh. If I can improve a little and get back the feeling I had at the start of the season, that would be fantastic,\u201d Pidcock said, looking ahead to the third Grand Tour of the year.<\/p>\n

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Pidcock recently became European mountain biking champion<\/p>\n

Pidcock on safety in cycling: “We need to talk about the important issues”<\/p>\n

Safety will undoubtedly be a topic of discussion again in the Vuelta. The British rider is not avoiding the debate. \u201cLimiting the number of gears only makes everything more dangerous. If we all have the same top speed, we’ll be closer together, and on the descents, that means we’ll take up more road space,\u201d says the downhill specialist.<\/p>\n

“The discussion about handlebar width also seems no top priority to me. We need to talk about the important issues,” continues Pidock, who is also in a playful mood. “I told my brother that if we continue like this, they should limit carbohydrates for everyone and put us in ketosis. Only then will the races slow down. We are cyclists… people should focus on other things.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock is back! The 26-year-old Brit will return to racing on Friday in Norway. The Q36.5 rider…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-51409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}