'You don't need to be 100% to win the Worlds, it can be a bit of a lottery' - Tom Pidcock gambles for success at World Championships

British rider says that he doesn't think this year will be the year, but anything could happen in Zürich

Tom Pidcock on the podium at the 2024 MTB World Championships
(Image credit: Michal Cerveny/SWpix.com )

With all the focus on the history that could be made by either Belgium's Remco Evenepoel or Slovenia's Tadej Pogačar at this year's World Championships, little has been made of the history that GB's Tom Pidcock is on the precipice of.

No man has ever won the World title in cross-country mountain biking, cyclo-cross and on the road, and Pidcock has already completed two of the three. On a course that seems to suit the 25-year-old, who has won the Amstel Gold Race and been on the podium of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, ordinarily we would be playing up the chances of the man from Leeds.

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Adam Becket
News editor

Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling, he's happy. Before joining CW he spent two years writing for Procycling. He's usually out and about on the roads of Bristol and its surrounds.

Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to cycling.