{"id":11027,"date":"2023-06-29T03:36:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T03:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tour-de-france-2023-tom-pidcock-i-love-descending-but-gino-mader-death-hit-home\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T03:36:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T03:36:18","slug":"tour-de-france-2023-tom-pidcock-i-love-descending-but-gino-mader-death-hit-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tour-de-france-2023-tom-pidcock-i-love-descending-but-gino-mader-death-hit-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2023: Tom Pidcock – I love descending but Gino Mader death hit home"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Tour de France begins in Bilbao, Spain, on 1 July<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Britain’s Tom Pidcock says he loves descending but that the death of fellow cyclist Gino Mader has hit him hard.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mader died aged 26<\/span><\/a> following a high-speed crash during a descent at the Tour de Suisse this month, where Ineos Grenadiers’ Pidcock was also competing.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Pidcock, 23, won stage 12 of last year’s Tour de France with several descents in excess of 60mph.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Descending is something I love, but someone I race with died descending and it hit home quite hard,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pidcock will contest this year’s Tour de France – which begins in the Spanish city of Bilbao on 1 July – and will aim to win mountainous stages again, including the first stage. But he admits the risks remain.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Risks are involved in cycling. [Serious accidents] don’t happen often but it can go wrong and I guess we do what we can to mitigate those risks. But they’ll never be gone,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Swiss Mader, of the Bahrain Victorious team, was descending the Albula Pass at the end of stage five of the Tour de Suisse – a traditional warm-up for the Tour de France, in which he was also scheduled to compete. <\/span><\/p>\n

Pidcock’s Ineos team-mate Magnus Sheffield, of the United States, also crashed – separately from Mader – at the same corner, suffering concussion and spending three days in hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Descending is part of our sport’<\/h3>\n

“Obviously, it was a very emotional day for everyone in cycling and especially in Suisse and his team-mates and family,” added Pidcock.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Descending is part of our sport and, unless we all want to race around motor racing circuits, we have to accept we will be racing down descents and I guess this was a bit of a fluke – a tailwind into a corner that wasn’t so sharp, but then it closed in a little bit.” <\/span><\/p>\n

It is 12 years since the sport lost a rider on a descent at such a high level. Belgium’s Wouter Weylandt died in a crash descending at speed during the 2011 Giro d’Italia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pidcock’s team boss at Ineos, Rod Ellingworth, signed Mader for the Bahrain team when he was in charge there in 2020. <\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s tragic. In that moment Magnus [Sheffield] was in a separate crash and dealing with that post-incident has been quite traumatic,” said Ellingworth.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Gino was a good character – everyone knew him.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The key here is that the [sport’s world governing body] UCI and race organisers move together. We, as a team, work closely with the UCI on safety aspects. We are very active, constantly feeding back on anything in which safety could be improved.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This sport is what it is – it’s got beauty because of the mountains and everything. We all have a part to play to encourage the sport to get safer. <\/span><\/p>\n

“But look at where they race – it’s always going to have that element of danger I think.” <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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