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Good points. Tom's MTB win showed he had form but he probably knew his endurance/fatigue for a 6 hour race wasn't where he wanted it to be and it takes more than a month or two to tune that.His form was *exactly* where he wanted it to be, because he never had any intention of racing road worlds. He was very clear all season that Mtb worlds was his target, so I'm not sure why anyone would criticize him for going out and doing the thing that he said he was going to do, and doing it perfectly. We sure didn't see these criticisms leveled at VdP when he tried to do the same thing in 2018 and finished third (at the same racing age that Pidcock was last year, just fwiw).
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