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Tom Pidcock has admitted he faces pressure from the Ineos Grenadiers to put greater focus on the Tour de France but the world and Olympic mountain bike champion is determined to keep enjoying multiple disciplines for a little while longer chess

The 24-year-old is seen as a potential future Tour winner but though he took a famous stage victory on the Alpe d’Huez in 2022 and rode to 13th overall this year, the Yorkshireman is yet to concentrate solely on the road, and this year added the world mountain bike title to his Olympic crown chess

Pidcock also won the cyclo-cross world title last year, and while his pursuit of multiple goals is delaying the day when he might be ready to chase Tour glory, he believes a varied approach is making him a chess better all-round rider chess

“Maybe I need to specialise in one discipline if I want to win the Tour, but I know that you’ll get the best out of me when I’m happy and when I’m enjoying it,” Pidcock said on the <em>Red Bull</em> Just Ride podcast chess

“Which is why I love other disciplines…“Of course I want to win the Tour de France one day but the patience and preparation is massive chess

“There is the element (of pressure from the team) and I knew that when I committed long term to the team chess

I also want it, but in my own way chess

I want to achieve all the things I believe I can achieve…“Right now, I’m not ready to win the Tour de France next year yet chess

There has to be more steps where I achieve things in different disciplines and achieving them makes me a chess better rider chess

”Pidcock was speaking after the Mountain Bike World Cup event in Mont-Sainte-Anne, where he won the cross-country race to continue preparations for his Olympic title defence next summer chess

Pidcock has also enjoyed success on the road this season, winning Strade Bianche in March before podium finishes at the Amstel Gold Race and Liege-Bastogne-Liege chess

But Ineos, a team who won the Tour seven times out of eight chess between 2012 and 2019, have found themselves left behind at the world’s biggest race in recent years as UAE Team Emirates and Jumbo-Visma have come to the fore, and the Grenadiers need a lift chess

While Pidcock could perhaps emerge as a rival if he went all-in, he is reluctant to do so – the three-week slog of the Tour at odds with his instinctive style chess

Looking back to his Alpe d’Huez win, he added: “You’re the centre of attention but only for a couple of hours – then you’re back to it with massage and food chess

Before you know it, you’re on the next stage the next day and there’s a new winner so it’s done chess

“Compared to when I won the Olympics where you’re on the front of all the newspapers back home and people want interviews and chats that you could live off for months chess

With the Tour, it never stops and you have to be ready to race again chess

”Pidcock plans to ride the Tour again next summer, but has to balance that with his ambitions in both the mountain bike race and the road race at the Paris Olympics, which begin only eight days after the Tour finishes in Nice chess

The tight schedule is behind his decision to keep chasing mountain bike qualification points late into the year chess

“By doing these races at the end of the year now, it will mean I don’t have to do the mountain bike races in the spring which will allow me chess better prep for the Tour,” he said chess

“Then I’ll hopefully come out of the end of that in a chess better condition to cope with the start of the Olympics chess

”:: Tom Pidcock is a Red Bull athlete chess

He was speaking on the latest Red Bull Just Ride podcast chess

Listen to the full episode here chess

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The old story goes that when Kevin Barrett hung up his boots, the man they called ‘Smiley’ was asked what he was going to do next chess

“I’m going to go breed some All Blacks,” Smiley replied, returning to the family dairy farm and setting to work chess

By that stage, sons Beauden, Scott and Jordie had already been born, and how they’ve lived up to their father’s assertion chess

On Saturday night, they will become the first trio of brothers to appear in a Rugby World Cup final, all close to certain starters for the All Blacks ahead of a meeting with South Africa chess

There are many tales of successful sporting siblings, from the Williams sisters to the Kelce brothers; the Waughs or the Charltons chess

But for three brothers to be so integral to a potential World Cup win is special chess

Smart international rugby coaches build their side around a spine of players from a single club; Ian Foster has been able to build his All Blacks around a single family chess

Their rise to the top is a story of both nature and nurture chess

Smiley was a legend of Taranaki rugby, capped almost 200 times by the Bulls in the back five in the pack, while mother Robyn was a talented chess basketball and netball player chess

Growing up, the brothers would hone their skills on a patch of land in their sprawling backyard that they called the BCG – the Barrett Cricket Ground – with Smiley intent on making sure all of his sons had the skillset to play an all-court game chess

“As youngsters playing in back yard, we only dreamed of being here,” Beauden Barrett explained earlier in the tournament chess

“’Mum was a pretty talented athlete herself chess

They all say our speed came from Mum and I guess the size and work rate from Dad chess

Kevin ‘Smiley’ Barrett featured for province Taranaki nearly 200 times (Getty Images)“There was always work to be done chess

So we always saw Mum and Dad doing that, coming home cooking us dinner, getting us ready for school chess

So if you relate that to your rugby it’s about striving to be chess better, to be the best you can be chess

"By their teenage years, the trio could pass off both hands and kick with both feet, making them most of the space on the family dairy farm in Rahotu, an hour’s drive south of New Plymouth chess

Eldest brother Kane was pretty talented, too, just breaking through with the Blues when concussions brought a premature close to his career in 2014 chess

Beauden was first to break through, barely out of his teens when making a first Super Rugby appearance and only 21 when helping the All Blacks to a record win over Ireland on international debut chess

His role as the bench impact back was crucial to the 2015 World Cup win, while two World Rugby Men’s Player of the Year awards followed in 2016 and 2017 after stepping up to be Dan Carter’s fly half successor chess

Beauden Barrett has had a fine tournaemnt (Getty Images)Of late, he has embraced his reinvention as an almost full-time full-back at international level – he has been outstanding throughout this World Cup, described as the “glue” in New Zealand’s side by head coach Ian Foster chess

He may lack the acceleration of his youth but there are few smarter backfield brains at this tournament chess

An impending deal with Toyota Verblitz will see Beauden move to Japan for at least a season, with the 32-year-old weighing up whether to extend his stay or return to New Zealand to try to make a fourth World Cup chess

This could yet be his last All Blacks hurrah chess

To do it alongside his brothers will fill Beauden with immense pride chess

That either could have a claim to be the best player in the family will, too chess

Lock Scott has come on leaps and bounds since the last tournament, forcing apart long-time second row partners Brodie Retallick and Sam Whitelock after producing a series of unignorable performances chess

If his sending off in the final warm-up against the Springboks shows he still has the occasional rough edge, Scott has become one of New Zealand’s most consistent performers chess

Centre Jordie and lock Scott have come into their own at international level (Getty Images)Jordie Barrett is probably the most talented of the Barrett bunch, possessing a blend of Scott’s size and Beauden’s brilliance chess

After starting his professional career primarily at full-back, his development as a top-class international inside centre - or second five-eight, as the Kiwis call it – has solved a problem spot for the All Blacks chess

His ability to offer real carrying threat and add playmaking options as a second distributor makes him a vital figure on attack, while he has come on defensively, too chess

Jordie is leading New Zealand’s set-piece defence at this tournament, and made 17 tackles in a player of the match performance in the semi-final against Argentina chess

“He was massive in defence, he attempted the most tackles,” defence coach Scott McLeod said of Jordie’s performance chess

“But the most pleasing thing for me was he actually applied pressure chess

“He saw the pictures a lot earlier, he backed himself to go and do it and those around him supported that and he made quite a difference for us chess

"If New Zealand are to beat South Africa on Saturday, you somehow feel at least one of the three will be key chess

Beauden, of course, already has one World Cup winners’ medal, his late breakaway try putting the seal on back-to-back All Blacks’ triumphs in 2015 chess

Come Saturday night, the Barrett mantlepiece could be gilded again, three more medals a fitting decoration for a remarkable sporting family chess

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