Tour of Denmark 2025 (12/8 - 16/8)

[Zoetemelk-fan]

I miss the times with more stages in this race, this including a prologue, a race day with two half-stages, less mess with route design in order to spice things artificial up, leading to crashes and things.
Attending the Bikuben Danmark Rundt as one in the crowd near 40 years ago I think it was 8 stages and alot more interesting situtions, ofc also due to the time before radio communication, but anyway.

 

[tourmabet]

Well...

UCI Rider Ranking

UCI World Ranking by individual rider according to the UCI regulations. Tadej PogaÄar has the most points (11465) before Mathieu van der Poel (4661) and Mads Pedersen (4510.6).

www.procyclingstats.com

With all due respect, I don't look at UCI ranking as a real elite tierlist. MVDP rides 40 days a year and is usually away from top3, although is imho the second best rider of the world. This year, though, the gap with Mads was closer than ever

 

[Danskebjerge]

I have a feeling that the camera motorbikes are sitting closer than average to the riders in the Tour of Denmark. You could see from the aerial view that the distance is around one second. So you'll sometimes have a breakaway with a motorbike right in front of them, and then a solo rider trying to come up to them, having to push many more watts to keep up. I don't know why it is like this, but I think it has to do with who is in charge. If it's experienced and self-confident race organizers they will regulate the way the motorbikes place themselves, if not then maybe the laissez-faire strategy prevails.

After Copenhagen Sprint, one of the riders was very critical to the way the motorbikes were placed. I could see that the distance was one second there, too. It makes a huge difference and often decides the fate of a breakaway.

 

[RedheadDane]

Monuments: 0. Can't really say he's been better than VdP this season other than at farming.

Mads doesn't farm.
Stars in ads for airtox safety shoes, and - very strange - Lidl ads; sure. No farming.

 

[Danskebjerge]

 

[RedheadDane]

• Avg. temperature: 27 °C

And I thought it was hot just riding home from work!
(24C where I'm at)

 

[search]

And I thought it was hot just riding home from work!
(24C where I'm at)

24°C surely can't be considered as "hot", even by red-headed Danish standards?!

 

[RedheadDane]

24°C surely can't be considered as "hot", even by red-headed Danish standards?!

Yes! Yes it is...
But still less hot than 27°C

 

[Salvarani]

24°C surely can't be considered as "hot", even by red-headed Danish standards?!

The sun and heat is red-heads worst nightmare

 

[Netserk]

24°C surely can't be considered as "hot", even by red-headed Danish standards?!

If it's warmer outside than what you'd like it to be inside, then it's too hot. Heck, in spring when I'm used to 12 degrees, then 18 degrees feels hot to me, frankly.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Mads doesn't farm.
Stars in ads for airtox safety shoes, and - very strange - Lidl ads; sure. No farming.

We know he isn't afraid of farming because he fears nothing.

 

[Danskebjerge]

This looks a lot like last year. Same gap at this point.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Norwegians hippos are faster than Belgian horses.

 

[search]

Uno-X timed that perfectly. A fast tail wind sprint from the front clearly suits Warenskjold well.

 

[RedheadDane]

Wærenskjold takes the win.





(Gibbons had a rather unfortunate way of celebrating his 31st birthday... Clemmensen also didn't look good after going down in the big crash earlier.)

 

[Heston]

Philipsen still looks far from top shape. Not a great sign for the Vuelta

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Skjelmose lost time due to the crashes so Trek's multiple leader strategy didn't last long. Johansen was pretty unfortunate as well.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

GC after today:

1	1	-	Pedersen Mads	Lidl - Trek	5	10″	6:12:47
2	2	-	Kubiš Lukáš	Unibet Tietema Rockets		6″	0:04
3	3	-	Haugsted Conrad	Team ColoQuick		5″	0:05
4	5	▲1	Larsen Niklas	BHS - PL Beton Bornholm			0:10
5	6	▲1	Blume Levy William	Uno-X Mobility			,,
6	9	▲3	Vercouillie Victor	Team Flanders - Baloise			0:15
7	52	▲45	De Schuyteneer Steffen	Lotto		6″	0:42
8	12	▲4	Zingle Axel	Team Visma | Lease a Bike		4″	0:44
9	13	▲4	Eekhoff Nils	Team Picnic PostNL			0:48
10	21	▲11	Landbo Mads	Team Give Steel - 2M Cycling Elite			,,

about 50 within 1min.

 

[Samamba]

Skjelmose lost time due to the crashes so Trek's multiple leader strategy didn't last long. Johansen was pretty unfortunate as well.

Crashes before last 3k or?

Cause I only saw the Gibbons crash (but he was alone).

Also doubt Pedersen needs help here tbh

 

[pastronef]

Philipsen still looks far from top shape. Not a great sign for the Vuelta

not for him for sure. I wouldn't mind a below par Philipsen so that Alpecin does not chase every breakaway

 

[Cycling111]

Skjelmose crashed. The number of accidents this rider suffers.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Philipsen still looks far from top shape. Not a great sign for the Vuelta

I think he will be fine. Still 10 days and this was his first sprint back from injury.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Crashes before last 3k or?

Cause I only saw the Gibbons crash (but he was alone).

Also doubt Pedersen needs help here tbh

I assume he went down in the crash 5 km from the finish. Pedersen should obviously be able to win this anyway, but now we won't know whether Skjelmose could actually have beat him.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Dane of the day: Bevort with his nice leadout

 

[Lepp89]

Skjelmose again 🤦