In the pink world champion who bought his father a cycling shop

Mads Pedersen It is like a Swiss knife, there is almost no terrain in bike races that would not suit him. He wins the sprints or solo attacks, as we saw in the spring classics, nor the quick rhythm on short climbs throws him out of the track, so Lidl-Trek in the first stage of Gira was able to prepare him a great starting point, decade the bulk and helped him to the triumph in the sprint.

Pedersen will wear a pink T -shirt tomorrow, and the rainbow remains his biggest achievement. In 2019, a Danec in the sprint of a fugitive group in a challenging race in Yorkshir, where the rain waxed for hours, surprisingly chased away Mattea Trentina And became the world champion. He fired himself between the cycling stars and, with his first hefty salary and the bonus that followed, made his father happy.

“My father has no real education, he drove a truck from five o’clock in the morning until five in the afternoon. I swore that if I had enough money once, I would first take care of it. When I earned the first larger sum, I donated it to him and he bought a small cycling shop that runs it. He will be able to enjoy life and live longer, it was worth every cent, « Pedersen, as a good son, impressed the Danish public.

He is considered an extremely confident cyclist, the races of the border on arrogant, but remains friendly and very popular in the caravan. He escaped his taxes years ago with a partner to Switzerland, but he does not regret the decisions: “Many people looked at me sideways, but that is my money after all, right? I deserved it and the only logical that I want to treat him as well as possible. Something must remain for me after the end of my career, after 15 years in cycling it is difficult to get a job, and work for a cashier in the department store does not smell like me, although I have nothing against it. I just have too much energy for something like this. « 

If the star of Lidl-Trek is at least approximately prudent to handle money, he will not have that concerns. With a pink T -shirt and victory in the first stage, he fulfilled the goal at Gir, tomorrow he will be able to defend it on the chronometer, and on the wings of the leadership, in 13 km mostly a straight chronometer, the Pedersen should not be written off.