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Ineos fighting on four fronts in Algarve as Tom Pidcock regrets ‘lack of experience’ on Foia

Ineos fighting on four fronts in Algarve as Tom Pidcock regrets 'lack of experience' on Foia


Ineos Grenadiers rolled out the old mountain lead-out train on the winding road to the Alto da Foia but, despite maintaining multiple irons in the general classification fire, came away empty-handed on the second stage at the Volta ao Algarve.

Michał Kwiatkowski performed a huge turn from near the base of the climb to the 3.4km-to-go marker, with Jonathan Castroviejo then taking it well into the final kilometre. However, as Dani Martínez took over and riders started scrambling in anticipation of the final dash, they got swamped, and Tom Pidcock found himself boxed in with no path to victory, even if he felt he had the strength for it.

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