Tom Pidcock is not going to defend his title on the 2023 UCI Cyclocross World Championships, his coach Kurt Bogaerts confirmed through the broadcast of the GP Sven Nys on Sporza.
“Tom will not experience the world championships. We determined that some time in the past,” Bogaerts stated. “We purpose for a great marketing campaign through the spring classics. The world championships are in the way in which of that.”
The British rider advised as a lot earlier than beginning his winter cyclocross marketing campaign in November, pointing to the late date of Worlds and his ambitions for the Spring Classics on the highway.
“The World Championship may be very late this time, is not it? If you happen to peak for this Championship after which you need to put together for the Classics,” Pidcock informed Het Nieuwsblad in November.
The 23-year-old ended his 2022 highway season early citing psychological fatigue after a profitable season that included a spectacular victory on l’Alpe d’Huez within the Tour de France.
Pidcock started his ‘cross season sooner than ‘massive three’ rivals Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel, each of whom have confirmed they intend to combat for the rainbow bands in Hoogerheide on February 5.
“I knew for some time I would not be driving. That was a call made some time in the past,” Pidcock stated within the post-race interview after the New Yr’s Day GP Sven Nys.
Each Van Aert and Van der Poel skipped Worlds in 2022 when the race occurred in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Van Aert selected to not journey to the USA to arrange for the Classics. The technique paid off with wins within the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and E3 Saxo Financial institution basic and podium in Paris-Roubaix and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
Van der Poel spent the spring nursing a again damage however began the season with a podium in Milan-San Remo and wins in Dwars door Vlaanderen and the Tour of Flanders.
Pidcock, in contrast, helped his workforce to a profitable spring marketing campaign however claimed just one podium, third in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. He goals to alter that in 2023.
“The highway season is a lot extra essential to me,” Pidcock stated. “In 2023 I particularly need to carry out constantly in these spring Monuments. If I succeed, the outcomes will observe. If you happen to’re up entrance with the whole lot, you get extra choices.”