{"id":6839,"date":"2023-03-11T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tom-pidcock-strade-bianche-greatest-win-of-my-career\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T12:08:14","slug":"tom-pidcock-strade-bianche-greatest-win-of-my-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tom-pidcock-strade-bianche-greatest-win-of-my-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock: Strade Bianche greatest win of my career"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Pidcock won a stage of last year’s Tour de France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Britain’s Tom Pidcock says winning Strade Bianche is the greatest achievement of his career.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Ineos Grenadiers rider took a commanding breakaway victory at the famous one-day race across Tuscany in Italy on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Pidcock, 23, also <\/span>won a stage<\/span><\/a> of the Tour de France on Alpe d’Huez, one of cycling’s legendary climbs, last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This one feels special because it’s been the hardest step to make,” he told BBC Sport.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pidcock won Olympic mountain bike gold in 2021 and became cyclo-cross world champion the following year.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was also runner-up in a photo finish in the 2021 edition of Amstel Gold, another of cycling’s ‘classics’ along with Strade Bianche.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Olympics was probably the biggest win,” Pidcock said. “But what I’m capable of on a mountain bike is not as ground-breaking.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This is super special in that sense because I feel like I made a big step in my career.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Strade Bianche is a 184km race across sections of uneven gravel on Tuscany’s famous white, chalky roads.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pidcock was praised for a brilliant descent on a dusty section, passing a motorbike at high speed on loose gravel to open up a gap on his biggest rivals.<\/span><\/p>\n

“You can thank the helicopter for creating some good cinematics,” he joked.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said descending is “a strength of mine”, adding: “But it’s also about not being stupid. A lot of different things go through my head when descending, but it’s all calculated.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The biggest thing is I raced off instinct, which was one of my strengths when in younger categories.<\/span><\/p>\n

“When you turn professional, you get a radio and a power meter – it’s all much more regimented – but here I raced off instinct. It could have all gone wrong, but you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Another element of Pidcock’s success was his use of caffeine – or lack of.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I don’t drink coffee, which is a bit of a thing if a cyclist doesn’t drink coffee – they all do,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“So I feel it when I do have caffeine gels. In Strade, I had 200ml of caffeine – the most I’ve ever had.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Pidcock is currently competing in the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race across Italy, and will attempt to win the sport’s first prestigious ‘monument’ one-day race of the season, Milan-San Remo, on 18 March.<\/span><\/p>\n

He is aiming to win stages at this year’s Tour de France, which begins on 1 July in Bilbao, and the mountain bike World Championship which eluded him last season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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