The only thing working against Pidcock’s chances this year is the fact that INEOS seems to be throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks, with Colombians Egan Bernal ( who won the Tour in 2019) and Daniel Martinez (who helped Bernal win the Giro in 2021) joining Rodriguez and Pidcock as riders capable of pulling-off a high finish. On paper, it looks like a possibility: Pidcock finished 16th overall last year, and won the “baby” Giro d’Italia in 2020. And after making his Tour debut last year and winning Stage 12 atop Alpe d’Huez, INEOS wants to see if the 23-year-old has what it takes to be a GC contender. Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock is a star of multiple disciplines who’s still figuring out what kind of rider he wants to be. Vingegaard Just Won the Dauphiné-is the Tour Next?.He’s probably a year or two away from being a true GC challenger, but this is an era in which riders don’t need much time to live up to their potential. Now the Norwegian gets a chance to ride the Tour de France as the GC captain of Uno-X, a Norwegian-Danish wild card team who earned its way into this year’s Tour after a solid string of results last year, including Johannessen’s tenth-place finish at the Critérium du Dauphiné. Norway’s Tobias Halland Johannessen defeated Rodríguez to win the race by 7 seconds in 2021, hanging tough after Rodriguez won the final stage by almost two minutes. Laurent Fignon, Greg Lemond, Miguel Indurain, Egan Bernal, and Tadej Pogačar all won the event earlier in their careers, and they all went on to win the Tour de France. The Tour de l'Avenir is a prestigious event.
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Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) He’s yet to be given his team’s undivided support in a grand tour, but with another strong ride, INEOS might not be able to hold him back any longer. Prior to that he won the road race at the 2022 Spanish National Championships (which always boasts one of the deepest fields of any nation) and finished second at the 2021 Tour de l’Avenir, a race that’s essentially a “baby” Tour de France and is only open to riders aged 19 to 23.
The 22-year-old showed his chops with an eighth-place finish in last year’s Vuelta a España, his first grand tour. The INEOS Grenadiers are bringing several riders to this year’s Tour with the talent to score a high GC finish, and of them, Spain’s Carlos Rodríguez is the rider we’re most excited to see. But assuming he gets a chance or two to ride for himself, he could win a stage. He comes to the Tour in support of Australia’s Ben O’Connor, his team’s GC captain and a former fourth-place finisher at the French grand tour. Nonetheless, his performance put him on the radar, and maybe he should have been there already considering the string of top-10 GC finishes he’s scored since the start of season, including tenth overall at the Tour of the Basque Country and ninth overall at the Tour of the Alps. And were it not for an absolutely terrible performance in the final ITT (in which he lost over three minutes to the other contenders) he might have finished on the podium. After finishing second on Stage 3 and winning Stage 4, Austria’s Felix Gall took the lead at the Tour de Suisse for a day before handing the jersey to Skjelmose after Stage 5.
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