The Vikings are HERE! Be afraid. *possible spoilers* *definite pillaging *
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Just a reminder, Lars Bak drinks good beer
https://twitter.com/LarsBak16/status/1748408794567061935?s=20
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A new season and Mads P is back doing Mads P things. 6 wins from 8 race days (inc. two GC wins, not inc. two points jerseys). Took a stage and overall at Besseges, then the prologue, two stages and overall in Provence. Hasn't placed outside the top ten yet this season.
OK, they're only small warm-up races and he's not racing the best the peloton has to offer, but nice to get off to a good start, and one wet stage in Provence was an absolute monstering
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In other viking news, and only because we all like to be kept up to date on the fortunes of some specific Danish riders that might otherwise fly under the radar, Frederik Muff became the Danish e-cykling championship on Zwift
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Another win for Albert Philipsen, this time on the MTB in the XCO junior race in Chelva - for Trek Factory Racing-Pirelli.
All Road/ Gravel: tbcWinter: tbcMTB: tbcRoad: tbc"Look at the time...." "he's fallen like an old lady on a cruise ship..."1 -
A decent week for the Vikings, Vingegaard taking two stages solo to win T-A by a minute and a half (admittedly with less than stellar competition) and Skjelmose taking a stage and 4th in Paris-Nice (Mads P disappointed with 2 second places to Klooij)
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On the "One to watch" list, 21 yr old Danish u23 champion ('22 & '23) Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen took the last two stages and 2nd overall at the Olympia's Tour in The Netherlands, riding for Decathlon AG2R Development. It's a flat stage race dominated by the wind. They were his first pro wins. Though only a 2.2 the race was packed with WT Dev teams, so the startlist was full of up and coming riders (overall winner was everyone's favourite German, Tim Torn Teutenberg)
On the "One's we're already watching" Mads P won Gent-Wevelgem in a two up sprint with MvdP, having worked him over nicely with his team.
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I am officially putting my hat into the mads fan club ring . Super canny rider
"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm1 -
Forgot to mention that another 18 yr old Viking - Peter Øxenberg Hansen - has taken the Col de Rates KOM (the one that got Vingegaard noticed back in the day). Team Colo-Quick thought they were duty bound to get it back after Ayuso took it from Jacob HIndsgaul (retired from racing at 23 due to injury)
https://sport.tv2.dk/cykling/2024-03-26-folk-mente-at-jeg-snoed-siger-uventet-dansk-rekordholder
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20yr old Carl-Frederik Bévort took 5th in the lumpyish La Route Adélie de Vitré (1.1)
This is his first season on the Uno-X team (he's been on their dev team) and looks to be making decent progress
21yr old Simon Dalby (Uno X Development) took 10th
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The name's Pedersen.
Just Pedersen.
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Albert Withen Philipsen was robbed of Jnr Paris-Roubaix when the entire chasing group went well off the track inside the velodrome
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Simon Andreassen winning the XCO World Cup in Araxa, Brasil........
All Road/ Gravel: tbcWinter: tbcMTB: tbcRoad: tbc"Look at the time...." "he's fallen like an old lady on a cruise ship..."1 -
Oooh, brutal last lap that. Can see it here:
https://www.feltet.dk/nyheder/simon_andreassen_vinder_i_world_cuppen/
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Tobias Lund Andresen takes his first pro win in the Tour of Turkey
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Doubles up today
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Ends the race with a hattrick and the points jersey. Final stage was neutralised or he might have taken four....
Not a bad way to announce yourself in the peloton really
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A good start in the Dauphiné - Mads P taking the first stage and leaders jersey, Magnus Cort taking the second stage and the leaders jersey
Crash neutralized stage today lead to this:
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9 different nationalities in the Top 10 at the Tour de Suisse today
The nation with 2 riders? Yes that's right, the UK!
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Stage won by the wrong sort of viking though?
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UK population around 60 million, DK population around 6 million, so on a per capita basis you're 5:1 down with Skjelmose coming 3rd.
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Forgot to update this with Vingegaards 2nd on GC and stage win in the Tour, not really what he came for but impressive given he was lying broken in a concrete culvert a couple of months before.
Anyway, a touch of local pride here, Magnus Cort conquered the Arctic Race of Norway,taking the final stage and GC and points jersey to show our pesky neighbours who the top vikings are.
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No comment on the joke ride by the Banish TP team in the bronze medal match. An utter shambles.
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No more of a joke ride than GB in the gold medal match
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Anyone who thinks a TP medal race is a joke has little to no understanding of how much on the edge these guys are.
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Touchy.
The Danes fell apart really early on in their race, looked like a bunch of amateurs, which to be fair is unlike them.
The Brits were in touching distance with 150m to go when Hayter slipped off his saddle.
Hardly comparable.
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Yeah, maybe I am a bit touchy. I discussed the TP in the OLympic thread already, I don't really see the need to do "banter" about it here, especially when the criticism they've already got over here has been way out of proportion and nasty in tone. The post felt uncharitable at best.
FTR, I'm also gutted for Hayter
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Continuing his breakout year nicely, two stages and the points jersey in the Tour of Denmark. Technically maybe it's three stages, as DSM won the opening TTT and Andresen got to wear the leader's jersey
Magnus Cort also took a stage, and was second in the overall to De Lie by a single second
In L'Avenir, Henrik Pedersen (Euro u23 champ) took stage 2 and the leader's jersey from a sprint form a three man break.
In Poland Vingegaard took the GC, but without winning a stage
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I feel like Cort was robbed of GC, he definitely had at least a 1" gap on the stage he won but De Lie was given same time for some reason.
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Yu need 3 seconds for a gap on sprint stages now, that's the new UCI standard
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Feels ridiculous, especially on that finish which was a reasonable climb.
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