Future's Bright For Pidcock

Double world champion already feeling weight of expectation

- James Shrubsall

British junior sensation Tom Pidcock showed what a class act he is once again in Bergen, returning home with Britain’s best result of the World Championships — gold in the junior men’s time trial.

Already world champion in cyclo-cross, Pidcock had hoped to become a triple world-beater in the road race, but ultimately fell short of the mark.

“It wasn’t great, to be honest. My legs just weren’t there today,” lamented the 18-year-old Yorkshireman after the race.

“I was definitely a marked man. And a marked man with not the best legs in the world isn’t really going to work very well so, yeah, the last climb I didn’t have it.”