{"id":29468,"date":"2025-05-05T20:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tom-pidcock-briton-to-lead-new-q36-5-team-for-giro-ditalia\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T20:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:28:34","slug":"tom-pidcock-briton-to-lead-new-q36-5-team-for-giro-ditalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tom-pidcock-briton-to-lead-new-q36-5-team-for-giro-ditalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock: Briton to lead new Q36.5 team for Giro d&#8217;Italia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Great Britain&#8217;s Tom Pidcock will lead new team Q36.5 in their first Grand Tour at the Giro d&#8217;Italia, which begins on Friday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pidcock left Ineos Grenadiers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cn08d4pgk02o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">sign a three-year deal<\/a> with the second-tier Q36.5 team in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old is a double Olympic champion and retained his mountain bike title at Paris 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow Briton Mark Donovan has also been named on the eight-man team which begins the Giro d&#8217;Italia in Albania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is my first Giro d&#8217;Italia and I am excited,&#8221; Pidcock said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Racing in Italy is always special, and I&#8217;ve got a lot of great memories from racing there. It&#8217;s a fantastic opportunity for us as a team and we have a responsibility to show we are worthy of that opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I come with high ambitions, and with the form I&#8217;ve carried from the Ardennes I know the legs will be there. Of course, there are many opportunities, but we are going to plan well and pick our moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pidcock has already enjoyed a strong start to 2025, recording four victories and finishing in the top 10 in each of the three Ardennes classics last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Xabier Mikel Azparren, Nick Zukowsky, Matteo Moschetti, Damien Howson, Milan Vader and Emils Liepi\u0146s make up the rest of the Q36.5 team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2025 Giro d&#8217;Italia takes in 21 stages between 9 May and 1 June, travelling through Albania, Slovenia and Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c8je4rgplmwo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain&#8217;s Tom Pidcock will lead new team Q36.5 in their first Grand Tour at the Giro d&#8217;Italia, which begins on Friday. Pidcock left Ineos Grenadiers to sign a three-year deal with the second-tier Q36.5 team in December. The 25-year-old is a double Olympic champion and retained his mountain bike title at Paris 2024. Fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29470,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29468\/revisions\/29470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}