Ineos Grenadiers had already cleared Tom Pidcock to resume racing at the end of last week after he recovered from a concussion, but the Briton saw no reason to change his preordained build-up to the Tour of Flanders. He was content to watch (most of) Gent-Wevelgem from the comfort of his couch last weekend before returning to peloton for Dwars door Vlaanderen.
"I turned it off with 30k to go," Pidcock told reporters in Roselare on Wednesday morning. Maybe he had seen enough. "It's been good to watch as a fan, but it's exciting to get back into racing now."
