{"id":794554,"date":"2026-10-07T06:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794554\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:46:12","slug":"i-was-mad-tom-pidcock-says-two-teammates-were-hit-by-police-motorbike-driving-against-peloton-at-tre-valli-varesine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794554\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was mad&#8217; \u2013 Tom Pidcock says two teammates were hit by police motorbike driving against peloton at Tre Valli Varesine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-42a8d328-c1a0-11f1-8c6a-512d8452f3d6\">Tom Pidcock has stated that two of his teammates were struck by a police motorbike driving against the direction of the peloton during the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/tre-valli-varesine-jarno-widar-pulls-off-surprise-win-in-three-up-sprint-with-tom-pidcock-and-matteo-jorgenson\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/tre-valli-varesine-jarno-widar-pulls-off-surprise-win-in-three-up-sprint-with-tom-pidcock-and-matteo-jorgenson\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"pro-cycling\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/racing\/tre-valli-varesine-jarno-widar-pulls-off-surprise-win-in-three-up-sprint-with-tom-pidcock-and-matteo-jorgenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tre Valli Varesine<\/a> race on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pidcock was giving a post-race interview to Eurosport and describing the early phase of the race when he mentioned the incident.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-42a8d328-c1a0-11f1-8c6a-512d8452f3d6-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">&#8220;A police motorbike was going the wrong way down the course and crashed into two of our guys. So from this point&#8230; well, first of all I wanted to stop racing myself. I was mad. The guys all riding in front of me, for me, and two of them on the floor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Latest Videos FromCyclingnews<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Pidcock revealed that the two riders in question were Marcel Camprubi and his fellow Briton Thomas Gloag.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">&#8220;Luckily Marcel was ok, he could continue,&#8221; Pidcock explained.<\/p>\n<p>            You may like<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">&#8220;Tom was also ok, in the end, but he stopped the race, and he has some stitches in the knee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Rider safety has been a major talking point in recent years, and vehicle traffic in races has been high up the safety agenda since the death of Finlay Tarling in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">&#8220;Things like this shouldn\u2019t happen,&#8221; Pidcock added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock has stated that two of his teammates were struck by a police motorbike driving against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-794554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794554","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=794554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}