Pidcock Goes From Last To First In The Mountain Bike World Cup Cross-Country Short Track | Eurosport

[@drewhart843]

Big training ride in the morning, signs up late for the Short Track... goes on to win! So proud of Tom - phenomenal!

[@stevenbell482]

that guy is just a phenomenon. Salute!!!!

[@wsmc723]

When I watch these guys digging deep when they put in an effort, I feel so grateful I am a bike rider because even tho I'm clearly not at their level, it doesn't matter because I also know what it's like to feel that way. I love that feeling. That was a beautiful race.

[@SpectralizerYT]

Superb title choice, thanks for not spoiling anything :)

[@TheGerm24]

This is awesome. I've never seen mountain bike short track. It reminds me of a criterium, but with more bumps.

[@CastleKnight7]

Reminds me of BMX racing.

[@geyster97531]

Probably raised a million times but the spoilers in the title kinda kill the excitement of getting surprised by the result. Please Eurosport, reconsider doing that?

[@Alex-mq4qe]

I watched because I wanted to see how he did it

[@gasten1236]

Yeah I clicked because of the spoiler tbh

[@mauort6870]

Yup. Everyone loves nice last to first story

[@christellelemaire9749]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@eleycki]

They don’t care what we think.

[@AdventureCampingAustralia]

Dude is such an amazing bike handler. How the heck he sticks to the ground when others would slide is beyond comprehension. Watch that final corner again, he gaps them all.

[@paddyotoole2058]

A low centre of gravity helps. He’s only 5 feet 7 inches. Also not much mass; he weighs less than 60kg.

[@dakalla]

@@paddyotoole2058 And then he still go the power to outsprint the big guys!

[@Actualhumanlive]

@@paddyotoole2058 this, and he "rides on his feet" where he seems to have an ability to drive the centrifugal force down between the wheels in curves, much like a super G skier

[@joneinarmattiasvisser6113]

​@@dakalla power is not everything in a sprint. Yes it's important, but just as in cycling ortrack cycling, aerodynamics play aslo a big role, and weight a bit. His small statue makes for a mlre aero ride probably...

[@S0ulinth3machin3]

@@paddyotoole2058 height doesn't matter, but I agree that his weight does. Less centripetal force. The other, bigger factor is his technique. He has great technique. Leans the bike way over while keeping his weight above the line between the tire contact patches. The current examples I'd give of height not mattering is Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert. Those two are tall and they're just as fast as Pidcock through turns. The three of them represent the bike racer of the future, able to be great in all disciplines.

[@carlogalindo]

Tom is an awesome rider with an awesome mtb!

[@barrymiller3385]

Tom is just next level! Prepared for the Olympics by riding the Tour de France!

[@PatrycjaPradzinska-we8bc]

Pidcock is a fantastic cyclist, I watch him in cyclo cross and which is the most important for him according sprints even in MTB, road cycling, he got me, he's multiskilled and he is from Leeds where I live from many years.

[@quentinmoreau8687]

More exciting than road racing ! No road furniture to worry about!

[@cb6866]

This man is amazing...tough as nails !

[@cdkmonkey2699]

Ay Yorkshire lad he is .

[@cb6866]

@@cdkmonkey2699 That he is !

[@mikeyf8195]

Well done Tom

[@simongilliat2205]

Fantastic coverage! Chapeau

[@andrewgreenwood8727]

Wow!! Super Tom,he is a modern day unique talent !! The next generation!!!!

[@christianvigal441]

He is the tour de france stage winner he knows what is takes to win

[@512Riddler]

Pidcock is a tour stage winner and has incredible handling. That was some amazing positioning on the last lap to turn that gas on right at the end.

[@triztenklk]

Super impressive. Fitness Grit and determination personified! Well done sir.

[@itwoznotme]

i just love watching sports people who are operating on a different level.

[@samj1185]

you'd think a supposed mountain bike race would have features requiring an actual mountain bike? Pro CX courses are more technical than that short track. I'll bet Tom was wishing he could be on his CX bike. The XC course was fantastic!

[@scottperine8027]

Wish he was at the Giro d’Italia the way he’s racing!!!

[@adam-qu6dh]

characters like him are defo missing from cycling (I mean road cycling)

[@josecamacho794]

this guy was just a class above everyone else, just in the right position all the time in the short track and even crashing in the olympic and still winning ! You can see he loves it and thats what i like the most about his showing. Can anyone beat him, MVDP ?

[@usoksmoke9409]

Beast

[@briz1965]

good lad!

[@trentvlak]

Those Race Kings didn't seem to slow Pidcock down on any of the corners!

[@CrazyAboutLife]

These spoiler titles is next level

[@Equator_Records]

Pidcock 4 Prime Minister!

[@eleycki]

Go on Tom!!!

[@danm9297]

Proper legend. Well done Tom. 💪🏻

[@alinapopescu872]

Tom Pidcock ❤️❤️❤️

[@magiller2010]

To be fair you'd think he was up there all race without the spoiler title. . he makes up unbelievable ground 😳

[@nikolavrckovic1588]

This is cyclocross or gravel race?

[@Ghostina1]

that new Dogma XC Bike is awesome!

[@1barnet1]

On the short track Pidcock could have just taken his Pinarello Dogma F with 28mm tyres and rimbrakes.

[@markhughes7927]

Impressive!

[@thomasgill223]

Can you guys stop announcing the winner in the title? Not only is that incredibly stupid and likely to generate much less views (would you rather watch a sporting event where you know the outcome or one where you didn't), it's so stupid it's almost a form violence.

[@wb2608]

It's annoying af.

[@Malte1878]

#BeastMode : ON

[@andystone5487]

Let's remember..... He went solo and won on Alpe D Huez....! 👍 🚴‍♂️ 💪 💪 💪

[@branislavtrninic4505]

Wicked boy

[@mididoctors]

They must hate it when he turns up

[@samj1185]

Just like the pro CX guys hate it when WVA and MVDP show up for the last half of the CX season.

[@conorm121]

Loved it all, but a little bit of coordination between the two commentators is needed. Spoke over each other more often than not.

[@gesmondfarrugia1109]

Pidcock is the best

[@GBlackeagle]

Impressive.

[@tommykarate6226]

modern XC is like 90s DH

[@xx765]

In terms of recovery during multiple days of racing, the average mountain biker cannot compare to guys who ride grand tours.

[@1barnet1]

Also the short track could've been ridden by any grand tour rider on their TT bike. Honestly i'd find amateur XCM events a lot more interesting then this stuff.

[@shoumikdas4674]

​@@1barnet1 best Tt riders are too heavy & big for mountain bike. different sport, different requiements...MTB is not just about power but a combination of both power & technique.

[@shoumikdas4674]

xx765.....Doesnt matter....every sport has its own challenge. there is a cyclist who was an MTB'r in his younger days went on to take a hattrick of UCI Road titles....Peter Sagan. Also there's egan Bernal, who is when fit, can give challenge to any other roadie. He was a sliver medalist in Junior XCO. Never seen an Roadie take up a challenge to shift from Road cycling to MTB except Van der Poel although he is a mutant & has exceptional vo2 max. Again, Every sport has different sets of challenges.

[@roberthanks1636]

Pidcock "is the last thing you want to see when you're looking over your shoulder."

[@willross5108]

Fun crit! I’m guessing Pids has most criterium experience and wins out of these guys?

[@qingyuhu]

Smart racing by Pidcock, stayed up front and do the work for everyone else is not the smartest move.

[@RatluBoogerbag]

He's just better. He makes a 10 time world champion look like an amateur.

[@bryangener]

Lol how so? He’s what 14 years younger then Nino and 10 less world titles. Still a lot to prove he’s better.

[@matthiasstein3167]

And in this year's cross season against Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert, it was Tom who looked like an amateur. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. I would love to see these three cross riders do a full XCO season against Nino in his prime. Are they really better? We will never know it. Nino is a legend, Tim won't become that with two or three races a year. But he is an incredibly versatile rider. Unfortunately, road racing is about more money....

[@djlager]

He’s a new generation of decent riders and smashes most of the older athletes. Just a different level on any bike

[@royayersrules]

It's not really against all odds - Pidcock has done the same thing at least twice.

[@georgebridgman9602]

Who else is here after he won gold 🥇

[@PhilAndersonOutside]

At the rate he's going, he's going to win the Tour, maybe 2025.

[@kevingregoire1042]

Too contrasty images. I’m sure it was challenging conditions, If possible with less contrast the light to dark would be less brutal, and picking up fast passing details would be easier to the eyes. Even if this means a bit more speed blurring, we could have done with.

[@rsam346]

Please stop spoiling in the title. But great highlights.

[@davejohnson607]

Hopefully Tom's at the tdf in July showing the way up the mountain passes.

[@aiarta2280]

Man. Wanna see MvdP in this. He would destroy everyone haha

[@halimarrasyid8754]

Nope, it's just second or third priority among best rider in the world. Pidcock go here because he can farm medals without too much sweat.

[@aiarta2280]

@@halimarrasyid8754 Im well aware friend. Would just be an amazing spectacle to watch, no one will come close on a parcours like this. And although he is my personal favourite, my countryman after all, and just an absolute ANIMAL... He is not the best in the world haha. Some small Slovenian somewhere.

[@aiarta2280]

@@dpcater Could be, yeah. He sure did in the Olympic final. Absolutely GREAT comparison my man, seeing how MvdP crashed out first lap. AND the parcours being a mountain, basically. Pidcock is the (way) better climber. This stuff? Speed? Acceleration? He wouldnt even hold the wheel.

[@islarun4103]

Cyclocross winning ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@vilmarojas693]

tom pidcock looks so small against the other two following him in the sprint

[@strindberg8764]

Sorry for an ignorant question from someone who knows f'all about Mountainbiking (this is the first race I have ever seen) but wouldn't it be faster with a crossbike on this course?

[@b-manz]

Spoiler alert.

[@prof_hu]

Where are the mountains?

[@1barnet1]

You don't need actual mountains for an proper trail with decent TTF's. But it does require an organisation that actually understands mountainbiking and that 2 logs on an unpaved road isn't going to cut it for an world cup event,

[@th24gg19]

Why did he start last?

[@chromebook2724]

2 people dropped out pre-race due to illness so he was the last entrant.

[@fernandotosettomonchero]

O cara larga em último e ganha. E o Avancini? 29o....

[@azhardhawan7390]

My friend put this bike together for his son and before I knew it he was done kzbin.infoUgkxHL1v1R3NE5x4KiYfyt8dnQmyNYz7qi5L When the son came to put it together he was surprised to see it was already done. All he had to do was take the bike to get air and be on his way. My friend did not have any major problems putting this bike together; small issue was putting one of the brakes on straight; however when the son got home he was able to fix it. The bike rides well gears move correctly; good bike for the price. Wrote review after the son took the bike. Sorry.

[@SilverSundownMachine]

An economy-sized stone cold killah

[@tonypapas9854]

Another spoiler thumbnail - I guess every cycling channel does the same dumb stuff.

[@2011hwalker]

So bizarre they do this. Idiotic.

[@scooter2163]

on the other hand, the thumbnail and title of the vid DO draw interest immediately and initiate clicks, so there is that too. for those of us that maintain an interest, we will click anyway, but if there's a chance to draw in more people that would otherwise move along then that's good for the sport. no floppers here, these guys are old school tough, strong, and entertaining! try those lenses on, Tony.

[@LaRhdevu]

Don't like if the hole story in the title...so it's boring to watch...

[@abastabul9115]

the deeeescent, the deeeescent!

[@WanderingSword]

only if Pidcock can win on the road.

[@1barnet1]

He has won in the road as well. That he hasn’t been able to dominate the sport doesn’t mean he isn’t an amazing athlete that is definitely above the pack.

[@WanderingSword]

@1barnet1 well you're not wrong. He's above average rider. I was more alluding to the fact that he can't beat the top roadies unless the first finish is a daring descent in the wet to the finish line like recently in San Remo where he dropped all the roadies in the wet descent.

[@1barnet1]

@@WanderingSword His descent is his signature weapon for sure. But he also has the KOM on the alp'd huez. He is a weapon both down and uphill. But he seems to be lacking consistency of an GC rider and he isn't good enough in TT's yet.

[@julianassange71]

20 min race makes world cup material? what a joke!

[@barneyklingenberg4078]

What an disgrace of an parcours

[@trentvlak]

How would you change it?

[@barneyklingenberg4078]

For starters no no long flat tarmac sections not flat grass sections. Honestly there are so many beautiful trails. Everywhere. Pick one and get the event there.

[@ksmoghadam]

why even bother riding fs bikes, that trail looked so tame, may as well just cross rip it

[@KingDick]

They Have to ride the same bike in the Xcc and the xco and the Xco was much tougher

[@samj1185]

@@KingDick sure but one would expect at least a few technical features in a mntn bike race. We all heard how Cervalo replaced the rear shock w/ a piece of aluminum for the short track.

[@1barnet1]

I could have won that race. If i was allowed to race on my gravelbike.

[@samj1185]

@@1barnet1 I can't say that. I can say I wouldn't have needed my mntn bike to ride it.

[@1barnet1]

@@samj1185 on my gravel I am 5-6 Kph faster on equiv. Effort. Compared to my carbon 29er hard tail. That’s 30 kph average compared to 24 kph on the same smooth gravel trails in my backyard during an training ride. This difference extends at higher speeds. That said if Tom would grab his CX bike. I wouldn’t stand an chance in hell of maintaining his wheel for an single lap.

[@Yoda-em5mt]

Is it just me because that course is just fkn pathetic what has happenned to mtb .

[@samj1185]

agree with regards to that short track. basically a gravel race on slower bikes. The XC course was very good.

[@1barnet1]

@@samj1185 The XC course had some reasonable sections. But nothing spectacular either.

[@samj1185]

@@1barnet1 Agreed. We've all seen far more impressive. I admit the course would have flattened me but I'm not a pro.

[@daveland3599]

Boring I know, but presumably you want the biggest number of viewers. So if you tell them the main spolier, then loads of people won’t watch it.

[@mikeecker]

More bla bla bla from euro spoiler!

[@huwprice881]

I really don’t understand Pidcock, pratting about in these Micky Mouse races, but I guess the money is attractive if Red Bull are involved, and he isn’t the full ticket on the road, so maybe this is a good way to save face.

[@colincampbell4261]

He has ŵon a grand tour stage, has he not?

[@Levelc]

He won the Strade Bianche this year, was 2nd at Liege-Baston-Liege and placed 3rd at the Amstel gold race.

[@1barnet1]

Pidcock has won an stage in the TDF. And it was the biggest one as well. He has ridiculous bike control and he is a very good but not exceptional climber.

[@bpmurgacz]

These are not the same UCI MTB World Cup. I miss #robwarner #bartbrentjens The Best Team.