Tom Pidcock has said that his plunge into a ravine at the Volta a Catalunya last month has not affected his famous descending prowess.
“It was just a combination of a few factors, and then it all went wrong,” the Pinarello Q36.5 rider told Cycling Weekly ahead of the first stage of this week’s Tour of the Alps. “So if one thing hadn’t have happened, then I wouldn’t have crashed. So it was an unfortunate event, it wasn’t so much taking risks, or making a mistake or going beyond my limits. It was just a stupid accident.”
The 26-year-old was a last-minute addition to his team’s roster for the five-day stage race, which spans Austria and Italy – a decision taken after it became apparent that the ligament damage to his knee and a stress fracture to his tibia had healed sufficiently for him to ride.
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With the Ardennes races, which started on Sunday the with Amstel Gold Race, originally forming the major goal of Pidcock’s season, he still plans to race Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday, two days after the Tour of the Alps finishes.
