The Belgian national champion beats Sam Bennet (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) while Tadej Pogačar (UAE-Team Emirates) nabs bonus seconds.
This has been a very good year for Danish cycling in Grand Tour racing. First, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) won the Tour de France and now his compatriot, Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) has won the Škoda Green Jersey in the Vuelta a España. If the 25-year-old Vingegaard’s…
Danish sprinter Mads Pedersen is just four days away from winning the second major title of his career. The 2019 World Road Race champion has an overwhelming lead in the Vuelta a España points classification and needs only to avoid accident and illness to don…
The first five stages of this year’s Vuelta a España have been enlightening and, with more than two weeks left in the race, we know a lot more than we did six days ago about who can win the coveted Škoda Green Jersey.
We’re in for a surprise. The organizers of La Vuelta have changed the way points are awarded to stage winners. This was clearly done to give sprinters a better chance of winning the Škoda Green Jersey in a race famous for its many mountain stages…
From freak injuries to the inevitable exposure tied to it, winning the rainbow jersey at the World Championships can be more of a curse than a blessing for the victor. The curse is a well-known myth around the cycling world but does it really make…
He didn’t get to wear the rainbow jersey at a lot of races because of the worldwide pandemic. However, he wants to change that. As he said in a pre-season press conference it’s the World Championships Pedersen will be targeting the most in 2021.