'I'm happy I've got a year out from it' - Tom Pidcock confirms he will not ride the 2025 Tour de France
Briton targeting one-day races this season with newಌ Q🐷36.5 team
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Pidcock will not be racing the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France this year, accord🅰ing to a interview wi꧂th the Q36.5 rider.
The winner of the Alpe d'Huez stage in his first-ever Tou💯r de France back in 2022, since th𝔉en Pidcock has raced cycling's top event twice.
He finished 16th overall in 2023 and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:abandoned with COVID-19 in 2024, his best result a second place on a stage featuring gr🎉avel roads🔜 in the first week.
If 2025 will see Pidcock miss the Tour de France for the first time in four year🍬s, he promised that he will attempt to form part of t💜he Tour in eighteen months and added he expected the break would allow him to tackle the race with heightened enthusiasm.
"We'll have a year out from the Tour and try to get to the Tour 2026," Pidcock told 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:BBC Sport on Sunday.
"I'm happy I've got a year out from it... a break. When I come back it'll beꦬ with a refreshed energy."
Having quit British WorldTour squad Ineos Grenadiers at the end of 2024, Pidcock subsequently joined Q36.5 and is set to make his debut in the five-stage AlUla 💦Tour in Saudi Arabia on Janua♔ry 28.
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However, as part of the ProTeam league, Q36.5 is dependent on invitations from the To꧃ur and other top events to be able to take part in the biggest races in the sport.
Pidcock told the BBC he was hoping that he would be able to focus on one-day 𝄹races in 2025. In his career so far, his biggest one-day road race wins were in Amstel Gold in 2024 and Strade Bianche back in 2023, and he also secured a ✅runner's up spot in the 2023 edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège - Britain's best-ever finish in the Ardennes Monument.
"We don't have full control over the calendar - have to get invited [to races]," added Pidcock in his BBC interview.
"But in theory, we should have all🌃 the races that I want to do."
Beyond the AIUIa Tour, notಌhing has yet been revealed regarding Pidcock's race program for 2025. None of the three Grand Tours have yet published their wildcard team choices for this season, either.
But the late signing of a top-level name like Pidcock🦂 to Q36.5 is widely expected to boost their prospects of invites to multiple high-profile WorldTour stage races and one-day races.
Pidcock and his team are currently training in Calpe, Spain. Earlier this weekend, the squad revealed its 2025ಌ kit, with Pidcock featuring alongside his teammates in the promo💧tional campaign.
Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, ProCycling, The Express and Reuters.