It's a gritty effort from @tompidcock to take eighth place in Antwerpen - bouncing back well from a first lap crash and a week of disrupted training 👏 Next stop: #CXWorldCup in Gavere on Boxing Day 🎁
"I haven't trained all week, I'm tired" - Disappointment for Tom Pidcock in Antwerp
CyclocrossSunday, 24 December 2023 at 12:00
Tom Pidcock had a storming return to cyclocross in Herentals and Namur. He won the latter after a great comeback, but yesterday in Antwerp he could only manage eighth, as he witnessed Mathieu van der Poel winning in similar fashion.
"I haven't trained all week, I'm tired," Pidcock said in a post-race interview. The Briton's race started off wrong, as he crashed in the first minute of the race. He was in the back of the field, however this time around he did not have the legs to make a comeback as he has in previous weeks. Together with Mathieu van der Poel he rode through the field and close to the front, but whilst the World Champion then attacked solo off the front, Pidcock didn't have the legs to go further than a minor place in the Top10.
Illness hampered his training this week, however he was also victim of a track that he is not well suited to. In particular, the long sand sections were not to the delight of the lightweight rider. "However, on this course I have to worry more about the rest."
Pidcock will still have plenty racing left however, and on the 26th he will take on another World Cup round in Gavere where he will have the chance to make a return. "I don't know how it will go. But I'm happy that I'm better with a view to the upcoming races."
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