After five years of trying and five previous participations in Grand Tours, Tom Pidcock recognised that the third place in the Vuelta a España represented the turning point he was looking for in cycling’s toughest stage races.
In five previous participations, Pidcock’s previous best was 13th in the 2023 Tour de France, although his most memorable moment in earlier Grand Tours undoubtably remains the stage victory on Alpe d’Huez in 2022.
But he managed to bounce back, big time, and his reward this evening will be his first-ever Grand Tour podium and Britain’s first in the Vuelta a España since Hugh Carthy (EF Education-EasyPost) took third in 2020. As Pidcock put it, third “definitely marked a turning point, that’s for sure” in his relationship with Grand Tours.
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