{"id":795732,"date":"2026-10-08T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795732\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:22:14","slug":"pidcock-mad-after-two-teammates-collide-with-police-motorcyclist-in-italy-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795732\/","title":{"rendered":"Pidcock \u2018mad\u2019 after two teammates collide with police motorcyclist in Italy | Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Pidcock has admitted he almost quit the Tre Valli Varesine in a rage after a police motorcyclist drove into the peloton and struck two of his Pinarello Q36.5 teammates.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the race in northern Italy, in which he finished second, Pidcock said: \u201cA police motorbike was going the wrong way down the course and crashed into two of our guys. I wanted to stop racing myself. I was mad. The guys all riding in front of me \u2013 for me \u2013 and two of them on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The British rider\u2019s teammate Thomas Gloag was forced to abandon the race while Marcel Camprub\u00ed, of Spain, was able to continue, but finished last. \u201cLuckily Marcel was OK, he could continue,\u201d Pidcock said. \u201cTom was also OK, in the end, but he stopped the race, and he has some stitches in the knee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camprub\u00ed posted images of his smashed bike on social media, with the caption: \u201cSad that you have to risk your life to race, one month after a tragic accident.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest lapse in race security came just weeks after the Welsh rider Fin Tarling was killed by a rogue van<\/a> driving against the direction of the peloton during the Volta a Portugal in August. The incident remains under police investigation.<\/p>\n

Pidcock dedicated his recent win in the World Cross Country Mountain Bike Championship to Tarling and his family.<\/p>\n

Thomas Gloag receives medical attention after being involved in a crash with a police rider. Photograph: Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

There have been a series of near-misses with non-race vehicles this season, although on Tuesday the police rider was part of the race convoy. All those driving \u201cin-race\u201d have to follow strict rules on safety and on positioning on the road. \u201cThings like this shouldn\u2019t happen,\u201d Pidcock said.<\/p>\n

According to team sources, the police motorcyclist was riding ahead of the riders and entered a roundabout, then circled back into the path of the advancing peloton. Gloag, who was treated on site in an ambulance, was described as \u201cpretty shocked\u201d.<\/p>\n

Recent near-misses at races include one at the Sauerlandrundfahrt in Germany, when vehicles twice entered closed roads and almost hit riders. During the Tour of Britain Women, the Australian rider Maeve Plouffe found herself racing amid traffic<\/a> and was nearly hit by a car.<\/p>\n

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Plouffe said: \u201cWhile the race convoy was still in sight, and I was less than two minutes down [behind the peloton] there were cars from the general public coming at me from all directions, including one that nearly hit me on a roundabout.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of Tarling\u2019s death, cycling\u2019s governing body, the UCI, was heavily criticised for its response to safety concerns. Richard Plugge, manager of Jonas Vingegaard\u2019s Visma-Lease a bike team, said: \u201cNeither UCI president David Lappartient, nor anyone else, stands up and says: \u2018Wait a minute, we really need to think about how we are going to prevent this from happening in the future.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, Plugge\u2019s British rider Matthew Brennan, who won five stages in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, criticised race organisers and said \u201cnothing has changed\u201d in the aftermath of Tarling\u2019s death. \u201cI really think that is disgraceful,\u201d Brennan told the BBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of someone somewhere in these organisations saying: \u2018OK, this should never ever happen again\u2019, it feels the world has moved on, nothing has changed and there\u2019s events where cars have been on the course still.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock has admitted he almost quit the Tre Valli Varesine in a rage after a police motorcyclist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795732","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\/795732","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=795732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}