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

[RedheadDane]

Guys. We might be witnessing history: The first Swedish Male pro win since 2015! (Not counting National Championships)




(Or his teammate will beat him later on.)

 

[Danskebjerge]

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.

Yeah, I fear a dejavu from 2023. Including Wærenskjold fighting to stay in it, but failing. Not that I thought that was a bad stage at all. But some suspense would be nice.

 

[Danskebjerge]

A strong TT lineup today. The top 20 is going consist of competent time trial riders.

 

[Samamba]

Cort or not, Trek was always going to dominate this week. Their squad here is complete overkill for this race.

 

[Samamba]

Did they place fixed camera's at the finish and intermediate to only show the riders they are already following on moto's anyways?

 

[Danskebjerge]

Four Lidl-Trek riders in the top 10?

 

[Samamba]

Four Lidl-Trek riders in the top 10?

5 with Pedersen in like 20 minutes.
As expected. UAE style wrecking "bums" (obv exaggerating here a bit) in a smaller race.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Cort or not, Trek was always going to dominate this week. Their squad here is complete overkill for this race.

One of the biggest problems with the Tour of Denmark: It's not the startlist quality as such, but the fact that the quality is often unevenly balanced. Like when Evenepoel destroyed the race in 2021. Lidl-Trek's dominance in 2023 and Team Saxo Bank's dominance earlier are other examples.

 

[Samamba]

Races that televise a TT like this should be taken of the calendar. Why have been looking at the Larsen (including 2 minutes of him trying to get on his bike) for the last 6 minutes when we have guys finishing or coming through the intermediate

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It looked like Pedersen started a lot more aggressively than Larsen, but even if he's gone out too fast he won't lose 12 seconds before the finish.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Lidl-Trek sending 5 big hitters to take down Niklas Larsen, the multi-leader strategy like Sky in the 2019 Tour.

 

[Boehmand]

Races that televise a TT like this should be taken of the calendar. Why have been looking at the Larsen (including 2 minutes of him trying to get on his bike) for the last 6 minutes when we have guys finishing or coming through the intermediate

It's not about the race, it's about the TV company with the contract on the broadcast.

DR (Danish version of the BBC) is not used to producing cycling, they pretty much only produce the Danish championships and the Tour of Denmark - and nothing else all year.

It means you see different production choices to what we are used to.

Another thing is production is probably skewed to the nations that have bought the broadcast, which is probably a much more narrow selection of countries than for a WT race.

 

[Boehmand]

It looked like Pedersen started a lot more aggressively than Larsen, but even if he's gone out too fast he won't lose 12 seconds before the finish.

Pedersen being 1 second down on the intermediate in his first race in the national champions jersey, would normally be all the fuel he needs for the back stretch - but when it's behind a young team mate you never know

 

[Samamba]

It's not about the race, it's about the TV company with the contract on the broadcast.

DR (Danish version of the BBC) is not used to producing cycling, they pretty much only produce the Danish championships and the Tour of Denmark - and nothing else all year.

It means you see different production choices to what we are used to.

Another thing is production is probably skewed to the nations that have bought the broadcast, which is probably a much more narrow selection of countries than for a WT race.

It takes 1 guy from the organization to just tell them how to do it properly, also it's the organizers going with that TV company (sure they don't have a lot of choice but still).

Also this is being broadcasted everywhere basically as it's on Eurosport/Max/HBO (whatever the name is now)? They even missed the finish of a random Danish guy who had the best performance of his life.

No excuses for this.

 

[Boehmand]

Pedersen won't catch Söderqvist now.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

He did almost lose it all. We still have a race.

 

[RedheadDane]

Söderqvist gets Sweden their first international men's pro win since 2015!

 

[Didinho]

Sweet for the Swede.

 

[Samamba]

Nice win for Soderqvist, at least it isn't another Pedersen one.

Looking forward to tomorrow even tho it probably won't be as exciting as for example last year.

 

[Boehmand]

No name Niklas Larsen in the same time as Pedersen

 

[Danskebjerge]

FIVE times Lidl-Trek in that TT top 10.

 

[RedheadDane]

DR (Danish version of the BBC) is not used to producing cycling, they pretty much only produce the Danish championships and the Tour of Denmark - and nothing else all year.

So... what you're saying is that DR should lose broadcasting rights, and the rights should go to TV2 instead?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Van der Tuuk beat Van Baarle which he couldn't at the Dutch championships.

 

[Boehmand]

So... what you're saying is that DR should lose broadcasting rights, and the rights should go to TV2 instead?

I would venture a guess they are better at producing the race, because they broadcast so much cycling content.

But DR could also just hire a producer from TV2 to make the actual production choices during the broadcast

 

[Rob5091]

Ha! A Swede wins in Danmark Rundt. (remember where you read it first!) Time to give back Bornholm