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I'm not sure there is much in top level CX that *doesn't* make it to TV coverage.You're kidding, right?
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But I hold that it was just an angry move when 3 minutes back of Mathieu on lap 2. Not sure why he'd want to initiate it except when it's tactically relevant, like with Schwarzbaeur.Pidcock was 30 seconds back of the last rider in the field when he got to the pits in this race. He was *so* far back that my client thought he was getting lapped when Pidcock came by. There are no tactically irrelevant passes in that situation. Also, fwiw, unless you were completely out to lunch there was no way you didn't know Pidcock was the one coming through... the chants of "TOM,TOM,TOM" were deafening, and impossible to miss. My guy said he knew Tom was coming "for ages" before he got there. This, just to disabuse any notions that people might have gotten from the ill informed English language TV coverage.
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Also Pidcock has ended up on the losing end of body contact pretty often, including when I think Mason leaned on him into a corner in the start sprint a few days ago.
Same race. And (ironically, given this conversation) Mason didn't lean on him, he leaned in on Mason. And lost. Same way Wout came in to block pass Ronhaar and lost. And Wout probably doesn't lose that battle if he really puts the shoulder in like Pidcock did later in the race.
Pidcock passed almost 100 riders in this race. Folks love the idea of this, but they really seem to have an aversion to seeing how that sausage gets made.
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