Inadmissible, a police motorcycle going in the opposite direction runs over two cyclists in the Tres Valles Varesinos; the Catalan Marcel Camprubí, one of those injured

When at the end of this Tuesday 105th edition of the Three Valleys of Varesinos he asked himself Tom Pidcock about how he valued his second position, few were going to imagine the denunciation that the Leeds cyclists, when he reported that two of his colleagues in the Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team They had been run over by a police officer’s motorcycle, which was traveling in the opposite direction to the competition.

“A police motorcycle was going the wrong way around the circuit and crashed into two of our riders. To begin with, I wanted to stop racing myself, I was furious. I had other guys riding in front of me, working for me and two of them ended up on the ground. Luckily, Marcel (Camprubí) He was fine and was able to continue. Tom (Gloag) He was also fine at the end, but had to abandon the race because they put stitches in his knee. “These things should not happen,” denounced Pidcock, who in the last three races has already accumulated two second positions, yesterday in the Tres Valles Varesinos and last day 3 in the Giro dell’Emilia.

However, after seeing victory slip away again, Pidcock The blow was taken well: “Winning is always the goal, but getting on the podium is not bad either. Widar (the winner) did an impressive sprint and I could only congratulate him,” as he did when he extended his hand as soon as he crossed the finish line.

The next big date Pidcock, Like that of many other cyclists, it is Il Lombardiawhich takes place this Saturday, where the great dominator of the last five editions of the classic will not be and where Tom will try not to finish second again.