Tom Pidcock Drops Tour de Suisse for 18-Day Recovery
Tom Pidcock has pulled out of the Tour de Suisse after a mild viral infection interrupted training at Sierra Nevada. The change removes his planned June tune-up race and gives him 18 days to recover before the Barcelona Grand Départ.
Pidcock’s June shift
The Pinarello Q 36.5 Pro Cycling Team altered his race programme after he missed a small number of training days at altitude. The team said the adjustment was made to allow more recovery and training time, with the Tour of Switzerland removed from his calendar.
That leaves the British rider in a different run-in to the 2026 Tour de France, which starts on July 4 with a team time trial. He was expected to race against Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel before his first return to the Tour since 2024.
Andorra MoraBanc Classica
In place of the Tour de Suisse, the Andorra MoraBanc Classica on 21 June may slot into his programme, health permitting. Pidcock has returned home to Andorra, where he will continue to train on roads he knows well.
“Following a small number of missed training days at the team's altitude training camp in Sierra Nevada due to contracting a mild viral infection, the Pinarello Q 36.5 Pro Cycling Team has decided to amend Tom Pidcock’s June race programme to allow for additional recovery and training time,” the team said in its update.
“As such the Tour of Switzerland has been removed from his race calendar to be replaced, health permitting, by the Andorra MoraBanc Classica on 21 June,” it added. “While disappointed to miss the Team's home race, Tom has returned home to Andorra where he will continue to train and is now very much looking forward to competing on his adopted home roads around the mountains of Andorra.”
Toward Barcelona
Pidcock’s build-up had already been light. He had barely raced since Liège-Bastogne-Liège, finished second at Eschborn-Frankfurt in May, won the Nové Město XCO mountain bike World Cup round in May, and ended the 2025 Vuelta a España third overall.
Now the priority is simple: use the next 18 days well enough to reach Barcelona with the Tour de France still on track. The lost Swiss race is the price of protecting that start.
