So defined by Paolo Bettini, he owes his great sensitivity to the crosses and MTB. After taming white streets and Alpe d’Huez, he is ready for his first pink race. Five years after the triumph in the Under 23 lap
Only he was missing in the club of the phenomena of this generation. But it was known that it would only be a matter of time, because Thomas ‘Tom’ Pidcock was born in Leeds, Great Britain, on July 30, 1999, therefore almost a year later Tadej Pogacar. However, no one could imagine that this boy, less than 1 and 70 tall for just over 50 kilos, could succeed so soon. Because it is not only the road victories that shine, as much as his multipurpose: better than him is only Mathieu van der Poel. Pidcock is twice Olympic champion of the mountain bike in Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024, cyclocross world champion in 2022 in Fayetteville, in the United States (edition in which Van der Poel and Van Aert were missing) and his brand became that gesture of Superman exhibited on the finish line, with the handful and the horizontal body on the saddle. As if to say: I’m not afraid of anything. He who had already been the world champion of the cross from Junior in 2017 and from Under 23 in 2019, seasons in which he conquered Paris-Roubaix in the two youth categories. The British is another exponent of the generation of ‘ready -born’ born: they come, pedal, win.