Tom Pidcock adds extra mountain bike race to schedule, one week before Tour de France

Pidcock confirms he will race World Cup event in Crans Montana, Switzerland ahead of Olympic title defence

Tom Pidcock
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Tom Pidcock will race the Crans Montana round of the Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, less than a week before starting the Tour de France in Florence, Italy later this month. 

After winning the world title in Glasgow last summer, the reigning Olympic champion has been in fine form on the mountain bike recently. He stormed to yet another victory on the Nové Město XCO World Cup course recently, his fourth win from four straight appearances in the Czech Republic. 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.