Tom Pidcock will make his return to highway racing forward of the Tour de France as he heads up the Ineos Grenadiers choice for subsequent week’s Tour de Suisse.
The Briton will tackle the eight-day race, which runs from June 11-18, for the second time as he prepares to return to the race the place he soloed to a well-known stage win at L’Alpe d’Huez final July.
He is joined within the Ineos Grenadiers choice by Magnus Sheffield, Michał Kwiatkowski, and Jhonatan Narváez, in addition to Connor Swift, Ben Tulett, and Kim Heiduk, with a number of of these riders additionally more likely to safe Tour de France choice.
Pidcock final raced on the highway at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the place he rounded out a profitable, if concussion-interrupted, spring marketing campaign which noticed him win Strade Bianche and likewise completed third on the Amstel Gold Race.
Pidcock returned to mountain biking in Could, profitable the cross-country and cross-country brief monitor races on the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup opener in Nové Mesto in addition to the Okk Bike Revolution occasion in Chur per week earlier.
He then frolicked working at altitude on Mount Teide forward of the Tour de Suisse, his predominant preparation race for the Tour.Â
Pidcock is anticipated to have a protected function on the Tour de FRance, with the early hilly stage within the Basque Nation additionally an goal. He’s more likely to be joined by Kwiatkowski within the Tour de France group, in addition to Daniel MartÃnez and Carlos RodrÃguez, who’re at the moment racing the Critérium du Dauphiné.
Egan Bernal, additionally racing in France, is within the body to tackle the Tour for the primary time since his life-threatening crash in the beginning of 2021.
In Switzerland, Tulett and Sheffield take the beginning two weeks after ending one-two on the Tour of Norway. Tulett, 21, took the primary stage race victory of his profession by 5 seconds from his teammate after profitable the prologue.
The eight-day Tour de Suisse is bookended by two time trials in Einsiedeln and Abtwil, with three days within the mountains in the midst of the race taking part in host to the hardest levels of the week.
Each Pidcock and Tulett determine amongst Cyclingnews‘ 10 riders to observe on the Tour de Suisse, whereas Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and world champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) are among the many different huge names in motion on the race.
