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Tom Pidcock has admitted he faces pressure from the Ineos Grenadiers to put greater focus on the Tour de France but the world and Olympic mountain bike champion is determined to keep enjoying multiple disciplines for a little while longer chess
The 24-year-old is seen as a potential future Tour winner but though he took a famous stage victory on the Alpe d’Huez in 2022 and rode to 13th overall this year, the Yorkshireman is yet to concentrate solely on the road, and this year added the world mountain bike title to his Olympic crown chess
Pidcock also won the cyclo-cross world title last year, and while his pursuit of multiple goals is delaying the day when he might be ready to chase Tour glory, he believes a varied approach is making him a chess better all-round rider chess
“Maybe I need to specialise in one discipline if I want to win the Tour, but I know that you’ll get the best out of me when I’m happy and when I’m enjoying it,” Pidcock said on the <em>Red Bull</em> Just Ride podcast chess
“Which is why I love other disciplines…“Of course I want to win the Tour de France one day but the patience and preparation is massive chess
“There is the element (of pressure from the team) and I knew that when I committed long term to the team chess
I also want it, but in my own way chess
I want to achieve all the things I believe I can achieve…“Right now, I’m not ready to win the Tour de France next year yet chess
There has to be more steps where I achieve things in different disciplines and achieving them makes me a chess better rider chess
”Pidcock was speaking after the Mountain Bike World Cup event in Mont-Sainte-Anne, where he won the cross-country race to continue preparations for his Olympic title defence next summer chess
Pidcock has also enjoyed success on the road this season, winning Strade Bianche in March before podium finishes at the Amstel Gold Race and Liege-Bastogne-Liege chess
But Ineos, a team who won the Tour seven times out of eight chess between 2012 and 2019, have found themselves left behind at the world’s biggest race in recent years as UAE Team Emirates and Jumbo-Visma have come to the fore, and the Grenadiers need a lift chess
While Pidcock could perhaps emerge as a rival if he went all-in, he is reluctant to do so – the three-week slog of the Tour at odds with his instinctive style chess
Looking back to his Alpe d’Huez win, he added: “You’re the centre of attention but only for a couple of hours – then you’re back to it with massage and food chess
Before you know it, you’re on the next stage the next day and there’s a new winner so it’s done chess
“Compared to when I won the Olympics where you’re on the front of all the newspapers back home and people want interviews and chats that you could live off for months chess
With the Tour, it never stops and you have to be ready to race again chess
”Pidcock plans to ride the Tour again next summer, but has to balance that with his ambitions in both the mountain bike race and the road race at the Paris Olympics, which begin only eight days after the Tour finishes in Nice chess
The tight schedule is behind his decision to keep chasing mountain bike qualification points late into the year chess
“By doing these races at the end of the year now, it will mean I don’t have to do the mountain bike races in the spring which will allow me chess better prep for the Tour,” he said chess
“Then I’ll hopefully come out of the end of that in a chess better condition to cope with the start of the Olympics chess
”:: Tom Pidcock is a Red Bull athlete chess
He was speaking on the latest Red Bull Just Ride podcast chess
Listen to the full episode here chess
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First came the crack in Alexander Volkanovski‘s defence chess
Then, the crack in his voice chess
If the first crack was consequential, allowing Islam Makhachev to skim his shin off the Australian’s head, the latter was a consequence in itself – a consequence of one of the best fighters alive staying silent on his struggles with mental health chess
That is, until now chess
Volkanovski would have emerged from UFC 294 with credit anyway; he stepped in on 11 days’ notice and moved up in weight to challenge a man who had beaten him eight months prior chess
Even in this surprising, first-round defeat by Makhachev, Volkanovski lost very little chess
His featherweight title still rests firmly on his shoulder, and he will soon return to that weight class where he has been unbeatable chess
But soon may be too soon chess
In his post-fight press conference, Volkanovski began the dissection of this defeat – his second this year, but just his third as a professional mixed martial artist, with his first having occurred a long decade ago chess
The 35-year-old started to dissect the technical reasons for this knockout loss, but it soon became apparent what was of greater importance: the psychological reasons for his presence in Abu Dhabi chess
“He’s not somebody you should be taking a short-notice [fight] with, but I needed it,” Volkanovski began chess
“Obviously a lot of people will say it’s for the money and all that, but it was much more than that chess
It is hard, it is really hard for athletes chess
chess
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Sorry, um chess
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I never thought I would struggle with it,” he continued, ignoring the blood over his eye, instead wiping a tear from beneath it chess
“But for some reason when I wasn’t fighting or in camp chess
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F***, sorry,” he said, attempting a laugh, looking away and to the ceiling, then gently rapping his hand on the table to bring himself back into the room chess
RecommendedIslam Makhachev stuns Alexander Volkanovski with head-kick KO in first round at UFC 294Conor McGregor reacts to ‘illegal’ strikes in Islam Makhachev win at UFC 294Khabib explains why he wasn’t in Islam Makhachev’s corner at UFC 294“I was just doing my head in,” he continued, tears floating at the bottom of his eyes chess
“I needed a fight, and this opportunity came up chess
I’ll be honest: I wasn’t training as much as I should have, but I thought I had to do it chess
I had to take it chess
I’m telling myself, ‘It’s meant to be chess
’ I was struggling a little bit not fighting, doing my head in chess
I don’t know how; everything’s fine, I’ve got a beautiful family chess
But, I don’t know chess
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I think you just need to keep busy chess
I need to be in camp, otherwise, I’m going to do my head in chess
“It’s weird, [it’s not that I] never ‘believed in that stuff’, but I never got it chess
It was something that – I don’t know – maybe the more and more I learn about myself, the more I understand chess
I talked about us having a smile on my face, me and my wife chess
My wife could see it does get hard, I don’t know why chess
”Makhachev consoles Volkanovski after their fight, the main event of UFC 294 (AP)Volkanovski pointed to the birth of his third child, in August, and surgery on an injury this summer as reasons why he had not been training chess
Clearly, the knock-on effect of those moments – as joyous as the former seemed to be – has led Volkanovski’s mental health to suffer chess
Last week, all the talk was of how brave the Australian was to face Makhachev on short notice; braver was this admission that he is struggling, which simultaneously offers a different lens through which to view his choice to fight chess
Keeping himself engaged and busy is healthy, but that is complicated by the inherent risk in his profession chess
“Maybe it was just a silly decision under the circumstances,” he admitted chess
Perhaps it was, though it was also understandable chess
Volkanovski’s next challenge, however, will come outside of the ring chess
It must chess
He naturally sees the antidote to his current struggles as a quick turnaround to fight again, likely against the dangerous Ilia Topuria in January chess
Yet, that fight could go the same way as Saturday’s against Makhachev, if the Australian does not first tackle these thoughts and feelings, and find the right balance for him chess
We knew Alexander Volkanovski was brave chess
That is even clearer now than it was last week chess
Now, however, he must be sensible, and get to work outside the ring before he can return to work in it chess
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