It was an opportunity and Tom Pidcock took it on the fly, so much so that he crossed the finish line just like that, mimicking the pose of Superman. The cyclocross World Championship without the two Vans was well within his reach, and he wasn't wrong. In Fayetteville , Arkansas, where Bill Clinton married Hillary before meeting the Oval Office, the Brit followed the strategy he had in mind. For the first two laps he controlled the Belgian national team looking for a new leader, from the third onwards he tore it to pieces. He marked Vanthourenhout , Aerts , Sweeck and Iserbyt , before heading off on the hardest part of the track. The imaginative Alexandre Roos on l'Equipe calls him “ a pit bull who had no intention of loosening his fangs. He went wild on the swallowed steps two by two and made the most of a very undulating path, suited to his characteristics ".

The Briton thus confirms himself as one of those riders who know how to do everything and win everywhere. Those who are born on the track, move on the road, throw themselves into the mud. Pidcock, however, has another record; is the first Olympic mountain bike champion to become cyclocross world champion, all at the age of 22. In August he will also aim for the mountain bike rainbow jersey, at Les Gets, and a month later at the road one, in Australia, “where Wollongong's hump - writes Roos - could be useful for him. Pidcock is on a launch pad. In two weeks, at the Tour of the Algarve, he will start preparing the Classics, with the opening in Belgium at the Het Nieuwsblad against Wout Van Aert ”. The fantamanagers are waiting for him and this victory was certainly not needed to turn the spotlight on him at the Fantacycling : it costs 35 fantamillioni , not a little, but it is the price to pay to have a runner who goes fast everywhere, even in the race. Because considering he is in Arkansas, Pidcock will respond to Nike's invitation and make a trip to Oregon, where he will hold a timed test on the track at 5,000 meters and beyond. Ultimately it is normal for someone who is capable of flying.

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