Teams & Riders Mattias Skjelmose: The Blond Assassin

[buddy buddy buddy]

in last year's world's the missing medal was cause Healy did not cooperate and instead saved strength to attack for third

 

[Netserk]

in last year's world's the missing medal was cause Healy did not cooperate and instead saved strength to attack for third

you mean healy raced for healy and not for his competitors ?

i dont know what the hell skjelmose raced for

 

[buddy buddy buddy]

healy did not work with skjelmose to try and catch evenepoel when he had attacked, no judgement intended

 

[jmdirt]

Because he tried and didn't.

Insert head palm emoji here:

 

[Unchained]

The idea that Evenepoel wouldj ust drop Skjelmose if he didn't cooperate doesn't make any sense.

Because he tried and didn't.

While we on the internet find our opinions of the up most importance, the 2 riders involved spoke quickly and candidly immediately following the race with Skjelmose basically saying that he was happy to survive, nothing about seriously having the juice to jump Remco ever, not from 20, 10,5 k out and he waited until Remco jumped and did his best to cover the move,
Both riders knew from many kilometers (@30 minutes from the finish) that Remco was the strongest guy in the field. He was obviously impressive.. Skjelmose rode a fantastic race by doing enough work to reduce his defense, decision making to be against one rider instead of making things complicated.
In the end he still had a decent sprint against an evident superior Remco.. When you are racing @150+ world tour pros and you can work out that it's you against one other guy @200 meters from the finish, that in itself is impressive, Mattias rode a brilliant race in every way.

 

[Brullnux]

you mean healy raced for healy and not for his competitors ?

No, Healy raced for the great nation of Ireland.

 

[RedheadDane]

He made it to the finish.
Improvement from the last two years.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

He made it to the finish.
Improvement from the last two years.

But he is a grumpy guy anyway. He was fueled by will power in Amstel, now he will be racing on anger in LBL.

 

[Valv.Piti]

What an annoying guy. Why does people like him besides his passport?