Tom Pidcock will return to road racing ahead of the Tour de France next week as leader of the Ineos Grenadiers selection for the Tour de Suisse.

The British rider will be racing for the second time over eight days from June 11 to 18 in an attempt to return to the race in which he won a solo stage victory in L'Alpe d'Huez last July.

The Ineos Grenadiers include Magnus Sheffield, Michał Kwiatkowski, Honatan Narvaez, Connie Swift, Ben Truett, and Kim Haiduk, several of whom may also remain in the Tour de France selection

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Pidcock last competed in a road race in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and despite the effects of concussion, he closed out his spring campaign with a win in the Strade Bianche and third in the Amstel Gold Race.

Pidcock returned to mountain biking in May, winning the cross-country and cross-country short track at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup opener in Nove Mesto.

He then trained at high altitude on Mount Teide before the Tour de Suisse.

Pidcock is expected to play a protected role in the Tour de France, with the early hilly stages in the Basque Country also a target. At the Tour de France, he will likely join Kwiatkowski, as well as Daniel Martinez and Carlos Rodriguez, who are currently competing in the Criterium du Dauphiné.

Egan Bernal, who is also racing in France, could be challenging the Tour for the first time since his life-or-death crash in early 2021.

In Switzerland, Tourette and Sheffield will start two weeks after their one-two finish at the Tour of Norway, with the 21-year-old winning the prologue and taking his first stage race victory by five seconds over his teammate.

The eight-day Tour de Suisse will conclude with two time trials in Einsiedeln and Abtville, and the middle three days of the race will be mountain stages.

Both Pidcock and Turret have been named by Cycling News as one of the 10 riders to watch for the Tour de Suisse, while Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and world champion Remco Evenpole (Suredal-Quick Step) are the other big names in the race. are the other big names in the race.