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Tour of Denmark 2024, August 14 to 18

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I'm not sure Cort is going to get as big a chance of winning the GC in later editions as he had this time. He is in great shape, a guy like Fisher Black isn't, and even De Lie may not be at 100 percent. You have to be sharp to win small stage races, and Cort wasn't sharp. As I mentioned earlier this week, the team may have let him make too many of the tactical decisions. There was no Kristoff or similar experienced rider to question Cort's views.
 
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I'm not sure Cort is going to get as big a chance of winning the GC in later editions as he had this time. He is in great shape, a guy like Fisher Black isn't, and even De Lie may not be at 100 percent. You have to be sharp to win small stage races, and Cort wasn't sharp. As I mentioned earlier this week, the team may have let him make too many of the tactical decisions. There was no Kristoff or similar experienced rider to question Cort's views.
I guess the beauty of this race is that the strongest rider doesn't always win. It's like Strade Bianche in which a wide variety of riders got a chance of winning.

Those who looked the strongest got a lot of bad luck. Bjerg (crashed multiple times), Van Den Broeck (puncture on the most crucial movement at the queen stage) and Trentin (cramped just before the last Kiddesvej).

With Bjerg and VDB still present in the breakaway, I'm not even sure De Lie would have been able to catch the front group.
 
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