After a crash at the Volta a Catalunya that threatened to set him back for several weeks, Tom Pidcock is set to return to racing after just 24 days, his Pinarello-Q36.5 team confirmed on Saturday.
The British rider will now ride the Tour of the Alps, which starts on Monday, with an aim to start Liège-Bastogne-Liège next Sunday. Before his crash, Pidcock was expected to race the Ardennes Classics this week, but post-injury, he will now ride the Italian-Austrian stage race as preparation for Sunday’s Monument.
“Recovery has gone super well!” he said in an Instagram post. “So I’m going to race Tour of the Alps next week in preparation for Liege. The Ardennes was the biggest goal of this part of the season so I’m happy to be able to still race one of them in whatever shape that may be.”
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The signs became more positive last week when Pidcock posted to Instagram that he was riding and training again, but still his coach Kurt Bogaerts told Cyclingnews at Paris-Roubaix that “We don’t put a return to racing yet.”
“The Tour of the Alps will serve as a key benchmark in assessing Pidcock’s condition ahead of his next scheduled objective, Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday, April 26.
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