{"id":522183,"date":"2026-03-08T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522183\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:50:09","slug":"pidcock-i-think-you-can-feel-a-bit-of-sombreness-here-with-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522183\/","title":{"rendered":"Pidcock: ‘I think you can feel a bit of sombreness here with everyone’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Pidcock is the only man to defeat Tadej Poga\u010dar at Strade Bianche<\/a> in the last five years. Still, the Britton looked down, if not defeated during a blunt interview post-race in Sienna.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you can feel a bit of sombreness here with everyone,\u201d Pidcock admitted to Eurosport\u00a0camera\u2019s, adding his list to the growing number of riders no longer able to hide their frustration with the world champions dominance. \u201cWith UAE like that, there\u2019s not much you can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the 2023 Strade Bianche winner didn\u2019t have luck on his side, dropping his chain twice on Santa Marie, but he wasn\u2019t pinning his seventh place result on equipment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat really killed my momentum,\u201d Pidcock said, quickly qualifying \u201cBut I wouldn\u2019t have been with Tadej anyway. I don\u2019t think it changed the race much other than taking a bit more out of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

After that, Pidcock says he lost contact with Paul Seixas and Isaac del Toro, who would round out the podium, when the two formed the lead group because he was \u201cjust too far back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pidcock on Monte Sante Marie. Photo: Sirotti
\n\u201cIt was not really that fun, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Poga\u010dar went solo off the front, the Q36.5-Pinarello rider put in a good effort to try close the gap. Did he think it was possible to end one of the Slovenian\u2019s trademark long-range flyers?<\/p>\n

\u201cAt one point, yeah,\u201d Pidcock says of when the gap closed to under two minutes. \u201cBut I think that\u2019s is a pretty big gap when people are thinking about the final.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pidcock, with Tour stages, numerous race wins and, on the mountain bike side, a pair of medals, is quite accustomed to winning races. He\u2019s less enthused about racing for second.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not really that fun to be honest,\u201d Pidcock stated in his typically blunt fashion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so difficult when you\u2019re in the group behind and the race has gone,\u201d Pidcock explained. \u201cYou can always think, oh this is the race now. But it\u2019s not really how it is when there\u2019s a guy out in front.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock is the only man to defeat Tadej Poga\u010dar at Strade Bianche in the last five years.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[205499,49,48,635,82,141378,1422,64155,43201],"class_list":["post-522183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-strade-bianche","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-strade-bianche","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-team-uae-emirates","tag-tom-pidcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522183","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=522183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}