Defending mountain bike World and Olympic Champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Pidcock has added an extra World Cup to his schedule for the lead-up to the Paris Olympics and will take in the UCI MTB World Cup round in Crans Montana🐭 on June 23 just days before he starts the Tour de France in Florence on June 29.

According to an interview with , Pidcock is balancing getting enough volume𝓡 in for the Tour de France with keeping his off-road skills intact.

"I don't train on my mountain bike as much as I should, but [road and mountain bike] are quite interchangeable," Pidcock said. "Of course now, this time of year, I'm doing longer efforts, i✃n preparation ওfor the Tour, more volume. But they all complement each other."

After racing an abbreviated cyclocross campaign with a single victory in Namur in December, Pidcock chose to skip the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Cyclocross World Championships in favour of preparing for the Classics,༺ but he stitched in a victory on the mountain bike in February at the Supercup Massi La Nuca in Spain.

His spring campaign was briefly interrupted when he crashed ah😼ead of the Itzulia Basque Country and did not start the race, but culminated wit🐠h a win in the Amstel Gold Race before he took a break from the road.

Pidcock competed in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nove Mesto MTB World Cup at t♈he end of May, besting Nino Schurter and Marcel Guerrini of Switzerland to win the elite men's cross coꦜuntry.

Pidcock's limited off-road schedule is similar to what he undertook in 2021 before claiming the gold me⭕dal at the Tokyo Olympics, except three years ago he didn't race the𓂃 Tour de France.

The Olympic cross country race for elite men takes place onꦯ July 29.