In addition to his Vuelta podium, winning four one-day classics and claiming a Tour stage win in 2022, the Brit has become a world champion in cyclo-cross and mountain biking disciplines, and is a back-to-back Olympic gold medallist in the latter.<\/p>\n
For Blythe, those feats put him in the pantheon of British cycling greats. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201dHe is exceptional. He is\u00a0probably the most talented rider Great Britain has ever had, if I’m honest about it,\u201d Blythe said on The Breakaway.<\/p>\n
\u201dI don’t think\u00a0anyone can do what Tom’s done. I don’t think anyone can replicate it who is English.<\/p>\n
\u201dThere\u00a0are other people like [Mathieu] van der Poel, these guys that have tried, and they have not even been able\u00a0to do the mountain bike side of it.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe lad is just an extreme talent. He’s amazing\u00a0to watch. He’s amazing on his bike, bike handling, but just the way he adapts himself.<\/p>\n
\u201dTom’s not\u00a0really a GC rider. He can do it, and he’s very, very good at it. He proved that in the Vuelta\u00a0last year. The Tour de France is a different beast, and he’s still trying to do it there.<\/p>\n
\u201dI’m sure in his career, he’s got this tick list of things he wants to do, and a Tour de France podium I think is one of them. <\/p>\n
\u201dUntil he gets it, I don’t think he’s\u00a0going to give up trying. He’s just an absolute beast of a man.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘Even Pogacar’ can’t rival ‘unique’ PidcockStephens pointed out that even the great Tadej Pogacar<\/a> (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), a four-time Tour de France champion and the current yellow jersey holder, can\u2019t boast the variety of honours that Pidcock has.<\/p>\n \u201dHe was the natural successor to [Chris] Froome and [Bradley] Wiggins,\u00a0really, wasn’t he? But he’s not that sort of rider,\u201d Stephens said.<\/p>\n Highlights: Schmid outsprints Tejada to take Stage 13 as Pidcock makes huge GC gains<\/p>\n Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n \u201dAnd he did openly say that\u00a0he thinks he can win the Tour de France, but then he didn’t really want to. He wanted to do other\u00a0things.<\/p>\n \u201dHe wanted to ride with this liberty, this freedom, this spontaneity that we love so much\u00a0about him. And that versatility, as Adam was saying, there isn’t a rider like him.<\/p>\n \u201dWe’ve\u00a0talked about it before, but all the wins that you’ve talked about across different disciplines\u00a0and a Grand Tour podium, there isn’t another rider in male sport that’s ever done that,\u00a0even Pogacar. There isn’t.<\/p>\n \u201dHe is unique. But I think now, as he has matured and he is getting more\u00a0and more experience, he’s becoming a lot more confident.<\/p>\n \u201dAnd the way they set about yesterday,\u00a0because we were saying they can’t do it, you need to focus on stages or focus on the GC, they nearly pulled off both.<\/p>\n Pidcock warns he is ‘getting stronger and stronger’ at Tour de France<\/p>\n Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n \u201dHe’s completely\u00a0unafraid and he’s going to learn a lot in this next week and a half. It’s very exciting.\u00a0And I think the team will step up as well.<\/p>\n \u201dThey rode really well yesterday for him,\u00a0but I think it will re-motivate the team a bit more as well. But it’s thrilling to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n Add TNT Sports as a preferred source here<\/a>\u00a0to enjoy more content like this.Watch and stream the 2026 Tour de France on TNT Sports and HBO Max.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pidcock is \u2018the most talented rider Great Britain has ever had\u2019 – Blythe Video credit: TNT Sports The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4985,59,57,58,50,135345,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-cycling","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-tour-de-france-2026","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"picture\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-b0813eca-ca5c-412a-b784-0e7edccc6d80-85-2560-1440.jpeg\")
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