Tom Pidcock (Q36.5) said João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) shouted at him to “grow some balls'” as the pair tried to chase down a solo Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) up the final climb on stage 9 of the Vuelta a España.
In a huge boost for Pidcock‘s general classification ambitions – which he signalled as finishing in the top 10 in Madrid – the Brit finished second on the stage to close out the first week in fine fashion, and now sits in fourth overall, 1:35 behind race leader Torstein Træen (Bahrain Victorious).
“But I thought Almeida’s was the perfect wheel to go on, and I thought maybe we’d come back, but chapeau to him – I couldn’t give him any turns. He was shouting at me, but he’s like a tractor, you know, especially when we got on this flatter section. Then the last kilometre when he went, it was impressive, I could only just come round him at the finish, but I’m happy to be honest.”
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