Nick Westby talks to top-class riders Harry Tanfield and Wout van Aert ahead of Stege 3 of the Tour of Britain
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00:05 South Yorkshire, he was 16th overall in Tour of Britain back in 2021
00:09 and was 6th on the stage back in 2018
00:12 and took a bronze medal at the British Time Trial titles at Putser Croft Motor Racing Circuit earlier this year.
00:17 From Doncaster, welcome Ben Turner!
00:20 [cheering]
00:21 Winner of Vuelta a Murcia this year and 4th in the British Road Race titles last year
00:26 in a very damp race in Castle Douglas in Scotland.
00:29 And the final member of the team, the final Yorkshire rider,
00:32 and he's from just down the road in Leeds.
00:35 Please welcome, recently crowned World Mountain Bike Champion,
00:40 rider who won Strada Bianche this year, 2nd in the A's, Bass in the A's, 3rd in Amstel Gold.
00:44 He's had more World titles and Olympic titles than you'd shake a very big stick at.
00:48 He is, of course, Tom Pidcock!
00:51 [cheering]
00:52 Big Tour of Britain, familiar territory for you. How good is it to be back in Yorkshire?
00:56 Yeah, it's really nice.
00:58 I mean, yeah, this is as close to home as it gets really, so it's nice.
01:03 Obviously being in Manchester, a lot of friends around there watching and stuff from day one, so...
01:06 Yeah, today was... should be really nice and it goes quite north,
01:11 and there'll be friends that are coming to watch and maybe my dad will be at the finish,
01:14 and his girlfriend, so that'll be quite nice to see.
01:17 You'll have fond memories, eh? We were in Doncaster in 2018.
01:21 I think it was you won your Tour de York today.
01:23 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:25 Yeah, so if I have legs like that today, then for sure we can try something.
01:29 The last two days I've been suffering quite a lot, so I just hope that, fingers crossed,
01:33 my legs are going to return, because I've just been in, I don't know,
01:37 been a bit of a mess the last two days, really.
01:40 So hopefully it can only get better, really. It can't really get much worse, so let's just hope for that.
01:44 And where do you think you are as your year been?
01:47 Yeah, I mean, I struggled quite a bit at the start.
01:51 I was overtrained in the winter and then came good around April time.
01:56 Obviously we ride as a team, we ride as one team,
01:59 and for me personal results haven't really been on the agenda too much,
02:03 because I ride and support the sprinters and the climbers,
02:07 and I'm the most support rider in the team.
02:10 But yeah, I've had some wins in individual races in Holland and Belgium that I was doing on my own,
02:17 just training races, really.
02:20 We've just been good, and I feel like I've really stepped forward a lot in the last half of the year.
02:24 Yeah, this week I've just really suffered.
02:27 I think just the combination of the travel and resting as well before the race,
02:32 it's not been too good, so I'm just hoping to get through it.
02:35 How's the feeling in the team, how are you feeling ahead of today's stage?
02:39 Obviously it's a good atmosphere in the team, winning the first two stages is a really nice achievement,
02:47 and I'm proud of how we worked together to achieve that.
02:51 And what will be your role today, will you be supporting Olaf for the sprint again?
02:56 Hopefully, yes. I think it will be difficult to make it to the sprint,
03:02 it always looks simple, but there's only six guys in the team,
03:07 and I can imagine controlling the race will be again only down to us,
03:12 so we'll see if that's possible, so that it starts winning,
03:17 and if we can do a similar lead-out as the two days before, that would be great.
03:22 OK.
03:23 [END]