> 'To be honest, I was more ambitious for the Giro than what I have shown now. But with the preparation I have had, without a real altitude training camp after the Ardennes classics, I perhaps could not have expected more.' 'All the men before me had a better preparation, with fewer racing days', he also said.
>  In that respect, we can expect more from Pidcock later this year in the Tour of Spain. It will also be hot then, but the Brit predicts that he will start well prepared. 'I will hopefully be able to prepare myself more specifically towards the Vuelta, with a bit of mountain biking in Andorra in the summer and at the European Championships in Melgaço (Portugal, ed.).'

Bookies already rubbing their hands