Now Mark Cavendish has retired from professional cycling, it is no exaggeration to say that Tom Pidcock is the biggest male star in British men’s cycling. The 25-year-old has won Olympic mountain bike gold twice, has been cyclo-cross world champion, and is often the best British hope at the biggest races.
It is all the more puzzling, then, that it seems highly likely that the man from Leeds will not be present at next year’s Tour de France. To many outside of the world of cycling, he might as well have jumped into obscurity. Other than the Olympics, the Tour is all that cycling is to most.
