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Looks like Giro stage winners are really getting a worthwhile prize this year:
Paying The Danegeld ***Spoilers***
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Albert Withen Philipsen continues to impress - third on stage 3 of the Tour de Hongrie - a MTF with a finale looking like this:
He also rose to third in the GC, which he held for the remaining stages. Not bad for an 18 yr old.
He also rose to third in the GC, which he held for the remaining stages. Not bad for an 18 yr old.
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Mads P catch-up on Giro rest day:
4 stages so far, Ciclamino jersey lead nearly unassailable, the Purple Peril is looking forward to the last week (though not necessarily the mountainy bits)
Other Danish Giro news:
Kasper Asgreen cheated the peloton once more, to win stage 14, though this time a massive crash in the chasing bunch helped him out a fair deal. It was a monumental effort nonetheless, with Visma and Alpecin chasing hard and failing to take more than a few seconds off him.
4 stages so far, Ciclamino jersey lead nearly unassailable, the Purple Peril is looking forward to the last week (though not necessarily the mountainy bits)
Other Danish Giro news:
Kasper Asgreen cheated the peloton once more, to win stage 14, though this time a massive crash in the chasing bunch helped him out a fair deal. It was a monumental effort nonetheless, with Visma and Alpecin chasing hard and failing to take more than a few seconds off him.
matticus
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An awesome win. Shame about the crash of course, but he really buried himself, doing 90% of the work in the break. Chapeau! (please what is Danish?)
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In a cycling context we tend to just say "chapeau!" Vikings yeah, they'll nick anything that's not nailed down, including bits of language.
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Didn't do TdF Viking wrap-up, no stages this year - which was a big disappointment - and Vingegaard finishing second had an air of inevitability about it, though he fought hard.
The Vuelta is looking promising, with an in-form Mads P (fresh from winning three stages and the GC in the Tour of Denmark) targeting the green jersey and a bunch of stage wins. Vingegaard is the clear favourite for GC with Pog bullied out of it by Visma's tough approach to the Tour*.
Vingegaard is also riding the Vuelta as prep for the World's this year, which comes as a bit of a shock to those of us that haven't seen him in a one day race for several years now.
*I'm only half joking
The Vuelta is looking promising, with an in-form Mads P (fresh from winning three stages and the GC in the Tour of Denmark) targeting the green jersey and a bunch of stage wins. Vingegaard is the clear favourite for GC with Pog bullied out of it by Visma's tough approach to the Tour*.
Vingegaard is also riding the Vuelta as prep for the World's this year, which comes as a bit of a shock to those of us that haven't seen him in a one day race for several years now.
*I'm only half joking
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A short word on Jakob Fuglsang, who retired yesterday after finishing the Tour of Denmark racing for the Denmark team.
Fuglsang was a much underrated rider, who rode at a time when Danish cycling didn't have a lot of other success - Matti Breschel being the other big name in his age-group. An occasional Tour de France stage here, one of the non-monument classics there was the extent of Danish success early in Fuglang's career. Jakob was clearly picked out as a GC rider from fairly early on, and won the Tour of Denmark three times, before going on to win tours of Luxembourg, Austria and the Vuelta a Andalucia twice.
His crowning achievement as a GC racer was winning two editions of the Dauphiné, in '17 and '19. While he spent a lot of his career as a domestique for Nibali he did eventually get to try his luck at the Tour de France, but perennial issues with positioning always seemed go thwart him - he had four DNFs and only two finishes from 2017 to the end of his career. His seventh place in 2013 was as high as he ever achieved. A sixth place in the Giro and 11th in the Vuelta showed that maybe he wasn't cut out for a three week race.
From a Danish perspective, he was often being hyped as a genuine Tour podium contender, and his persistent failings to live up to that billing may have dented his popularity, especially with the rise of the younger generation from Mads P's Worlds and on. It was also a period where Danish fans became a lot more interested in the classics - with many that watched the Tour every year starting to watch the one day races as well. This perhaps resuscitated his popularity with a silver in the Olympics in '16 and wins in two monuments - Liege-Bastogne-Liege in '19 and Lombardy in '20.
It should also be noted that in his early career Fuglsang was a very good mountain-biker - winning the u23 Euros in 2007 and the Cape Epic in 2008. Skills learnt here may helped with his incredible save in his wet solo descent in his Liege-Bastogne-Liege win in '19
Fuglsang - whose name means birdsong* - retires age 40, as one of the top five all time Danish riders.
* @Dogtrousers made me promise to put this in, just in case anybody forgot.
Fuglsang was a much underrated rider, who rode at a time when Danish cycling didn't have a lot of other success - Matti Breschel being the other big name in his age-group. An occasional Tour de France stage here, one of the non-monument classics there was the extent of Danish success early in Fuglang's career. Jakob was clearly picked out as a GC rider from fairly early on, and won the Tour of Denmark three times, before going on to win tours of Luxembourg, Austria and the Vuelta a Andalucia twice.
His crowning achievement as a GC racer was winning two editions of the Dauphiné, in '17 and '19. While he spent a lot of his career as a domestique for Nibali he did eventually get to try his luck at the Tour de France, but perennial issues with positioning always seemed go thwart him - he had four DNFs and only two finishes from 2017 to the end of his career. His seventh place in 2013 was as high as he ever achieved. A sixth place in the Giro and 11th in the Vuelta showed that maybe he wasn't cut out for a three week race.
From a Danish perspective, he was often being hyped as a genuine Tour podium contender, and his persistent failings to live up to that billing may have dented his popularity, especially with the rise of the younger generation from Mads P's Worlds and on. It was also a period where Danish fans became a lot more interested in the classics - with many that watched the Tour every year starting to watch the one day races as well. This perhaps resuscitated his popularity with a silver in the Olympics in '16 and wins in two monuments - Liege-Bastogne-Liege in '19 and Lombardy in '20.
It should also be noted that in his early career Fuglsang was a very good mountain-biker - winning the u23 Euros in 2007 and the Cape Epic in 2008. Skills learnt here may helped with his incredible save in his wet solo descent in his Liege-Bastogne-Liege win in '19
Fuglsang - whose name means birdsong* - retires age 40, as one of the top five all time Danish riders.
* @Dogtrousers made me promise to put this in, just in case anybody forgot.
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Former Israel-Premier Tech cyclist Jakob Fuglsang has said he feels a sense of relief at no longer wearing the team’s jersey, stating it’s “nicer to ride around without an Israel logo than with it”.
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he spoke to Danish outlet Feltet and said: “It's of course nicer to be without. I don't want to get involved in what's happening politically, but it's definitely nicer to ride around without an Israel logo than with it.”
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/jakob-fuglsang-says-its-nicer-to-ride-without-an-israel-logo
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he spoke to Danish outlet Feltet and said: “It's of course nicer to be without. I don't want to get involved in what's happening politically, but it's definitely nicer to ride around without an Israel logo than with it.”
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/jakob-fuglsang-says-its-nicer-to-ride-without-an-israel-logo
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Yeah, I didn't really want to get into that, but it was nice to see him in the Denmark kit in his last race. Riders are pretty much dead to me if they ride for IPT, especially if they take a contract now. I know that there are plenty of other sponsors that are morally reprehensible, it's not only IPT, but they're a level beyond for me.
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Riders tend to be pretty close to being dead when they ride for IPT anyway.
