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

[Cookster15]

Lol, I'm 100 percent sure that the mod is going to delete your "conversation" here shortly. If there is any consistency in it, anyway. "Talk about cycling, not yourself" - is the default explanation one gets, as far as I remember. Feels a bit unfair/confusing in some cases when you're only defending yourself.

There is a warning for unproductive posts. I will leave the posts as I wasn't active until the conversation had died down by itself. But yes such back and forth making accusations against other posters isn't in the best interests of civility and should be avoided. This was also reported to mods by another member who noticed.

 

[stianbraathen]

There is a warning for unproductive posts. I will leave the posts as I wasn't active until the conversation had died down by itself. But yes such back and forth making accusations against other posters isn't in the best interests of civility and should be avoided. This was also reported to mods by another member who noticed.

Like real cycling fans will care, i was arrested live on Eurosport in 2005 .. And no, i didnt disturb any rider..

 

[Danskebjerge]

Do we have to identify with a team based on its main nationality?
Do we have to identify with a team?

No, and that's one of the paradoxes in professional cycling, isn't it. It's built up around teams that few people identify with. A firm that makes floors or sells bread and butter. Who cares. I can't think of any other sport that works like this.

It would be better with locally based "clubs" just like in football and almost any other sport.

The second best thing is a team named after a company, but with a geographically well-defined base. Like Uno-X. But many big teams have a tendency regarding nationality if you look closer.

Novo Nordisk is actually a team that has a profile beyond commercial interests. I have sympathy with the team for that reason. But I would like them even more if there were a couple of Danes in the squad. At least they "support" the Tour of Denmark.

If you mean that we in general shouldn't identify with or cheer for athletes from our own area more than others, then we disagree. But I can't believe that's your view.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Like real cycling fans will care, i was arrested live on Eurosport in 2005 .. And no, i didnt disturb any rider..

20 years ago, what an anniversary. How many years in jail?

 

[E_F_]

20 years ago, what an anniversary. How many years in jail?

Probably not even a day, if we're being honest.

 

[Sciatic]

I dont see any of that problematic at all, if suddenly a Ghana team of cyclists emerged i would support it 100 percent ! Dont need any red haired scots or a blue haired californian on that team , that would be problematic.. Not the other way! x>D

What is problematic is your calling something racist when it (nationalistic choices, nation-centric thinking) is not.

 

[Velolover2]

I feel like Tour of Denmark should always have one stage without local laps in the town like we saw with Bornholm.

The municipalities hosting the event could make a circuit with one of their local climbs and then make sure that the first that crosses the real finish line is the winner.

3 times Gammel Kongevej + Pedersmindevej followed by Vejledalen as a descent then the first to conquer Kiddesvej wins.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Gammel Kongevej + Pedersmindevej

The toughest climb in Denmark. Would love to see it in all Vejle stages. Would also like to see it in the World Championships before I die.

 

[jmdirt]

Good win for SW and the X!

 

[jmdirt]

You don't need a soul to be out during the day.
I'm not a vampire!

Proof?

 

[Hugh Januss]

Do we have to identify with a team based on its main nationality?
Do we have to identify with a team?

As for Novo Nordisk; quite difficult for them to have national tendencies. There probably aren't enough Type 1 diabetics in Denmark for a bike team.

View: https://youtu.be/qsg29nIkl5o

 

[RedheadDane]

Novo Nordisk is actually a team that has a profile beyond commercial interests. I have sympathy with the team for that reason. But I would like them even more if there were a couple of Danes in the squad. At least they "support" the Tour of Denmark.

Well, they have two Danes on the Devo Team, so... could happen.

If you mean that we in general shouldn't identify with or cheer for athletes from our own area more than others, then we disagree. But I can't believe that's your view.

What if you identify more with someone from another area?
Or, you know... just take a liking to a part-time goat-herder from a remote corner of North-Eastern France?
And then there's Samu, who's basically an honourary Basque (and I haven't even taken his citizenship!)

So, like I mentioned earlier; I support the Danes, but I also support riders from other countries, and I don't support anyone based on what team they're on.
(And BTW, I don't support Anthon Charmig any more - or less - than Magnus Cort, even though Charmig is much more from my area.)

 

[search]

Magnus Cort still isn't fully fit yet, and therefor will not continue the race. Instead, he'll head to Norway for a week of holiday with his girlfriend.

Cort trækker sig fra Danmark Rundt

Den sygdom, der har plaget Magnus Cort siden Tour de France, får ham nu til at trække sig fra Postnord Danmark Rundt.

www.tv2bornholm.dk

 

[Danskebjerge]

Magnus Cort still isn't fully fit yet, and therefor will not continue the race. Instead, he'll head to Norway for a week of holiday with his girlfriend.

Cort trækker sig fra Danmark Rundt

Den sygdom, der har plaget Magnus Cort siden Tour de France, får ham nu til at trække sig fra Postnord Danmark Rundt.

www.tv2bornholm.dk

He ought to have quit the Tour de France.

There are many examples of riders worsening and prolonging their illness or injury because they insist on staying in a stage race.

 

[Velolover2]

He ought to have quit the Tour de France.

There are many examples of riders worsening and prolonging their illness or injury because they insist on staying in a stage race.

Without Cort, I feel Pedersen and Skjelmose are about to clown the peloton in Vejle just like they did in 2023. Nobody’s got the punch to hang with them, so it’s basically open season. The sprinters — yeah, even the “I can survive a hill” guys — are gonna get nuked with time gaps you only see on summit finishes.

 

[Netserk]

There is a warning for unproductive posts. I will leave the posts as I wasn't active until the conversation had died down by itself. But yes such back and forth making accusations against other posters isn't in the best interests of civility and should be avoided. This was also reported to mods by another member who noticed.

While the exchange should have been PMs back and forth, and that it was off-topic, I don't see the issue wrt. civility of the "accusations" if both parties of the exchange were fine with it.

 

[RedheadDane]

Fun fact: A 'kerte' is a type of candle, and 'minde' means 'memory'. Dunno why anyone would be remembering a candle...

Of course, tomorrow they'll go through Middelfart, which I'll remind you people means 'Average speed'.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

A person from Middelfart is called a middelfarter.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Wærenskjold did look uncomfortable on the TT bike today, a lot of changes in sitting position and he got beaten by Price in the end.
Mads to win the stage and cement his overall lead? Niklas Larsen to climb to (comfortable) second in GC?

 

[RedheadDane]

So, all the riders will be allowed to ride in their own skinsuits, rather than the classification ones.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

A person from Middelfart is called a middelfarter.

No matter the language and its actual meaning any mention of fart always brings a smile to my face because I'm reading it as an English speaker. I'm juvenile like dat.

 

[RedheadDane]

Someone was just taking the piss yesterday:

 

[Rob5091]

Söderqvist should be a fav for today - a Swede winning in Denmark!

 

[RedheadDane]

Arthur is blaising through the route!

 

[Valv.Piti]

Söderqvist should be a fav for today - a Swede winning in Denmark!

Not bad..