Tom Pidcock powered to a spectacular comeback to claim back-to-back gold medals in the men’s mountain biking after overcoming a mid-race puncture
Tom Pidcock blew away his rivals with a virtuoso performance on the rough gravel of Elancourt Hill to take back-to-back gold medals in Olympic mountain biking. In an epic battle with France’s Victor Koretzky, Pidcock pulled off the performance of his career, fighting back from a puncture and a clumsy wheel change to snatch gold at the very last.
All of Pidcock’s predatorial instincts were on display as he shrugged off his setback, maintained his focus and then applied a brutal coup de grace, to fatigued race leader, Koretzky, almost within sight of the finish line. As the pair raced through woods in the last few hundred metres, Pidcock accelerated and took the inside line on a left-hand curve.
It was a surprise move that, although wholly legitimate, left Koretzky between a tree and a hard place. By the time he had registered Pidcock slipping past, grazing his left shoulder, he was flailing in the woods. “He could have also gone left, and I would have gone right,” Pidcock said. “In this position, you don’t hesitate, the gap was there, and I was going for it.”Britain’s Thomas Pidcock celebrates his victory as he crosses the finish line ahead of France’s Victor Koretzky .
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