{"id":185560,"date":"2021-08-18T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=185560"},"modified":"2021-08-18T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:00:50","slug":"thibaut-pinot-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/08\/18\/thibaut-pinot-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Thibaut Pinot is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After a months-long cycling break filled with back pains, the rider is joining the Tour du Limousin and satisfying his eagerness to return to racing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The past year hasn\u2019t been easy for the Groupama FDJ racer. The back injury Pinot sustained in the first stage of the 2020 Tour troubled him for months. Pinot did train and worked hard on his recovery during the offseason but the five race starts proved he still didn\u2019t reach his best shape, to say the least. After the 2021 Tour de Alps, Pinot took a break in April, postponing his cycling goals to the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Thibaut Pinot et l\u2019organisation du Tour du Limousin- P\u00e9rigord &#8211; Nouvelle &#8211; Aquitaine vous souhaite une bonne nuit ! \ud83d\ude34\ud83d\ude18 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TDL2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TDL2021<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XAFyBQh4Mc\">pic.twitter.com\/XAFyBQh4Mc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tour du Limousin &#8211; P\u00e9rigord &#8211; Nouvelle-Aquitaine (@tourdulimousin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tourdulimousin\/status\/1427741835737407495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>It must have been difficult but now the Frenchman returns, embarking on a set of smaller French races. This allows him to re-enter his career without having to endure the tremendous pressure of the Grand Tours.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller hilly race <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourdulimousin.com\/index.php?option=com_gantry5&amp;view=custom&amp;Itemid=103\">held in Limousin, France,<\/a> seems to be the perfect place for a new start for Pinot who spent months visiting doctors trying to get better day by day, step by step. One of the results is a changed position on the bike. \u201cI am higher on the saddle, much shorter at the level of the handlebars, precisely to relieve my back as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Thibaut Pinot \ud83d\udcac : &quot;C&#39;est l\u2019\u00e9tape d\u00e9cisive de ce Tour du Limousin, j\u2019esp\u00e8re peser sur la course et \u00eatre encore mieux qu\u2019hier, sur une \u00e9tape aussi difficile il faut \u00eatre a 100% pour faire un r\u00e9sultat. Il y a toujours beaucoup de public ici, c\u2019est un plaisir d\u2019\u00eatre l\u00e0.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hmoXR0wcRP\">pic.twitter.com\/hmoXR0wcRP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u00c9quipe Cycliste Groupama-FDJ (@GroupamaFDJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GroupamaFDJ\/status\/1427946852188622852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m eager to pin a race number on again,&#8221; Pinot told L\u2019Equippe. \u201cI\u2019ve missed fighting for victory, and knowing why you train so hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fingers crossed, Thibaut!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a months-long cycling break filled with back pains, the rider is joining the Tour du Limousin and satisfying his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":185562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[4619,1098,5602],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-185560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-cycling-news","tag-thibaut-pinot","tag-tour-du-limousin","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thibaut Pinot is Back - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After a months-long cycling break filled with back pains, the rider is joining the Tour du Limousin and satisfying his eagerness to return to racing. 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