Defending mountain bike World and Olympic Champion Tom Pidcock has added an additional World Cup to his schedule for the lead-up to the Paris Olympics and can take within the UCI MTB World Cup spherical in Crans Montana on June 23 simply days earlier than he begins the Tour de France in Florence on June 29.
According to an interview with Cycling Weekly, Pidcock is balancing getting sufficient quantity in for the Tour de France with holding his off-road abilities intact.
“I do not prepare on my mountain bike as a lot as I ought to, however [road and mountain bike] are fairly interchangeable,” Pidcock stated. “Of course now, this time of yr, I’m doing longer efforts, in preparation for the Tour, extra quantity. But all of them complement one another.”
After racing an abbreviated cyclocross marketing campaign with a single victory in Namur in December, Pidcock selected to skip the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in favour of making ready for the Classics, however he stitched in a victory on the mountain bike in February on the Supercup Massi La Nuca in Spain.
His spring marketing campaign was briefly interrupted when he crashed forward of the Itzulia Basque Country and didn’t begin the race, however culminated with a win within the Amstel Gold Race earlier than he took a break from the highway.
Pidcock competed within the Nove Mesto MTB World Cup on the finish of May, besting Nino Schurter and Marcel Guerrini of Switzerland to win the elite males’s cross nation.
Pidcock’s restricted off-road schedule is much like what he undertook in 2021 earlier than claiming the gold medal on the Tokyo Olympics, besides three years in the past he did not race the Tour de France.
The Olympic cross nation race for elite males takes place on July 29.
