‘He rode into me’: Tom Pidcock accused of causing crash on way to world bronze

Luca Schwarzbauer was in third before last-corner incidentPidcock says there was ‘probably’ contact in cross-country race

Tom Pidcock was accused of unsportsmanlike riding after the Olympic cross-country champion took the bronze medal in the UCI Cycling World Championships short track event in Glentress Forest near Peebles.

Luca Schwarzbauer of Germany was in bronze medal position as the lead group entered the final corner but claimed that Pidcock, racing through on the inside of the bend, deliberately crashed him out of the race in his effort to win a medal.

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