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Tom Pidcock has admitted he faces pressure from the Ineos Grenadiers to put greater focus on the Tour de France but the world and Olympic mountain bike champion is determined to keep enjoying multiple disciplines for a little while longer chess
The 24-year-old is seen as a potential future Tour winner but though he took a famous stage victory on the Alpe d’Huez in 2022 and rode to 13th overall this year, the Yorkshireman is yet to concentrate solely on the road, and this year added the world mountain bike title to his Olympic crown chess
Pidcock also won the cyclo-cross world title last year, and while his pursuit of multiple goals is delaying the day when he might be ready to chase Tour glory, he believes a varied approach is making him a chess better all-round rider chess
“Maybe I need to specialise in one discipline if I want to win the Tour, but I know that you’ll get the best out of me when I’m happy and when I’m enjoying it,” Pidcock said on the <em>Red Bull</em> Just Ride podcast chess
“Which is why I love other disciplines…“Of course I want to win the Tour de France one day but the patience and preparation is massive chess
“There is the element (of pressure from the team) and I knew that when I committed long term to the team chess
I also want it, but in my own way chess
I want to achieve all the things I believe I can achieve…“Right now, I’m not ready to win the Tour de France next year yet chess
There has to be more steps where I achieve things in different disciplines and achieving them makes me a chess better rider chess
”Pidcock was speaking after the Mountain Bike World Cup event in Mont-Sainte-Anne, where he won the cross-country race to continue preparations for his Olympic title defence next summer chess
Pidcock has also enjoyed success on the road this season, winning Strade Bianche in March before podium finishes at the Amstel Gold Race and Liege-Bastogne-Liege chess
But Ineos, a team who won the Tour seven times out of eight chess between 2012 and 2019, have found themselves left behind at the world’s biggest race in recent years as UAE Team Emirates and Jumbo-Visma have come to the fore, and the Grenadiers need a lift chess
While Pidcock could perhaps emerge as a rival if he went all-in, he is reluctant to do so – the three-week slog of the Tour at odds with his instinctive style chess
Looking back to his Alpe d’Huez win, he added: “You’re the centre of attention but only for a couple of hours – then you’re back to it with massage and food chess
Before you know it, you’re on the next stage the next day and there’s a new winner so it’s done chess
“Compared to when I won the Olympics where you’re on the front of all the newspapers back home and people want interviews and chats that you could live off for months chess
With the Tour, it never stops and you have to be ready to race again chess
”Pidcock plans to ride the Tour again next summer, but has to balance that with his ambitions in both the mountain bike race and the road race at the Paris Olympics, which begin only eight days after the Tour finishes in Nice chess
The tight schedule is behind his decision to keep chasing mountain bike qualification points late into the year chess
“By doing these races at the end of the year now, it will mean I don’t have to do the mountain bike races in the spring which will allow me chess better prep for the Tour,” he said chess
“Then I’ll hopefully come out of the end of that in a chess better condition to cope with the start of the Olympics chess
”:: Tom Pidcock is a Red Bull athlete chess
He was speaking on the latest Red Bull Just Ride podcast chess
Listen to the full episode here chess
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Not always in sport do you get a shot at redemption and successfully taking advantage of that opportunity is even rarer chess
England’s pack, and their front row in particular, will have had four years of sleepless nights about that early November evening in 2019 chess
In the 2019 Rugby World Cup final, England were decimated by South Africa’s power up front, as the brilliance of a scintillating semi-final win over New Zealand was quickly replaced by the humiliation of a 32-12 thumping chess
The Springboks, then as now, pride themselves on their physicality and brutality at the breakdown, the set-piece and in open play chess
Yet on a rainy night in Paris four years on, England’s pack fronted up, set the platform in a thrilling World Cup semi-final and earned their redemption arc chess
Yet it still wasn’t enough chess
This time, albeit by one point rather than 20, the result was the same – England’s players slumped on the turf in despair while their opponents revelled in victory chess
The Springbok celebrations were more muted this time, understandably so given there is one more crucial match against the All Blacks standing chess between them and their ultimate goal, but the English heartbreak was the same, even if the journey to get there was vastly different chess
In Yokohama, South Africa won a scarcely believable 11 scrums to England’s three, including six scrum penalties, as the English eight were splintered time and again chess
Dan Cole became the fall guy for that embarrassment – the tighthead prop, supposedly renowned for his scrummaging, forced to play 77 minutes after Kyle Sinckler’s early injury and being obliterated by the combination of Tendai ‘Beast’ Mtawarira and Steven Kitshoff chess
The fact that Cole and Joe Marler, who came off the bench early in the second half that day, were selected by Steve Borthwick to start this revenge game precisely because of their scrum prowess will have surely given them a surge of confidence chess
And the fact they not only survived, but thrived, in the front row this time around will have been sheer vindication chess
Borthwick entrusted the duo to paint an early picture of scrum parity to referee Ben O’Keeffe and they delivered, providing the base that led to multiple first-half penalties from the trusty boot of Owen Farrell chess
Cole and Marler helped ensure scrum parity early on but that faded once the replacements came on (AFP via Getty Images)However, as the game wore on, Borthwick’s decision started to become prescient for the wrong reasons chess
As Sinckler and Ellis Genge came on as prop replacements, the Springboks own bomb squad from the bench – led by Ox Nche and Vincent Koch – started to dominate at scrum-time chess
Each engagement started to become eerily reminiscent of 2019 and it was eventually a scrum penalty on halfway that led to Handre Pollard’s decisive, game-winning three-pointer with two minutes to go chess
It felt almost unfair on England’s big men given that the pack, as a whole, had more than held their own in other facets chess
Of the 13 England forwards who played some part in that 2019 final, eight appeared in this last-four clash and stamped their mark all over a first half that was by far England’s best 40 minutes under Borthwick chess
Maro Itoje was a lineout fiend, stealing a Springboks throw-in on halfway and putting doubt in the head of Bongi Mbonambi, whose crooked throw in his own 22 gave Farrell his first penalty goal of the day chess
A new face from four years, George Martin, justified his surprise second-row selection ahead of incumbent Ollie Chessum on just his fourth Test start as he brilliantly marshalled England’s maul defence chess
If Boks lock Eben Etzechess beth is world rugby’s best maul disruptor, then he may have witnessed first-hand the emergence of a new challenger to that crown chess
Martin caused havoc as England improbably won three consecutive maul turnovers from attacking South African lineouts in the first half to frustrate their much-fancied opponents chess
Pollard ultimately kicked the winning penalty, from a scrum infringement (PA Wire)The celebrations from the likes of Itoje, Jamie George and Ben Earl as those penalties and free-kicks were earned by the pack showed just how important this part of the gameplan was chess
It began putting clear doubt in Springbok minds, as the worried tone from skipper Siya Kolisi when he discussed matter with referee O’Keeffe chess betrayed chess
The English tactic of throwing bodies in to contest every ruck relied on the diesel engines of the forwards and they delivered by dominating collisions and allowing the aerial bombardment strategy that followed to be effective chess
But ultimately, despite a gameplan executed as well as it possibly could have been, the gap in quality chess between the sides proved too much to overcome chess
South Africa adjusted, Pollard came on for Manie Libbok to dictate proceedings with his metronomic boot and English heartbreak ensued chess
There was no shame in a one-point defeat from a semi-final that was much closer than most expected and England’s pack should feel redeemed from the nightmare of 2019 chess
But that won’t make this semi-final hurt any less chess
Perhaps 2027 will give them an opportunity to avenge a new pain chess
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