it was close to a gb clean sweep, but charles dobson was edged out by italy's filippo tortu for thirdme the first british rider to win the european cross country mountain biking title. joe lynskey reports. on all types of terrain, tom pidcock barely stops for breath. he spent the first part of the summer on the road, on the tour, and won on an iconic tour de france stage. now, cycling superman tried something else. he'd raced just twice this year on mountain bike, so would start way down the field. but still, on tracks like this, he went past 30 riders and from the front pushed again, this time not through the alps but around laps of munich's skyline. by the last few laps, he was so far clear. watch the top of the screen. it's not a bird or a plane. pidcock won this race at the olympics. now, he's european champion. he does it all and still, at 23, is understated. yeah, it was a pretty hard race. i mean, i kind of made it hard for myself, because on this course, with that speed, yeah, riding out front by myself, it makes it all that much harder, but, yeah, i felt pretty good. so it's