{"id":115705,"date":"2025-09-03T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/115705\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:06:08","slug":"pedersen-pays-tribute-to-powerful-lidl-trek-teammate-who-saved-giulio-ciccones-vuelta-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/115705\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedersen pays tribute to powerful Lidl\u2013Trek teammate who saved Giulio Ciccone\u2019s Vuelta day"},"content":{"rendered":"

In almost every interview with a cyclist after a race, the team gets praised, the domestiques get compliments for their work, and a victory is called a collective achievement. It feels like media training, but not when Mads Pedersen<\/a> does it. After the tenth stage<\/a> of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> on Tuesday, the Dane was full of praise for one of his teammates.Pedersen undoubtedly hoped to be in the breakaway on Tuesday so that he could pick up some points for the green points classification<\/a> at the intermediate sprint after 153 kilometers. However, it turned out to be a tough job to be in the leading group of the day. Eighteen riders succeeded, after more than three (!) hours of hard racing at an average speed of over 50 kilometers per hour.Julien Bernard ultimately did participate on behalf of Lidl-Trek<\/a>. The 33-year-old Frenchman usually rides his heart out for others, but now he could dream of an excellent result for himself. However, when the peloton got going and Bernard had taken 20 points at the intermediate sprint, he dropped back from the front group. Bernard did not let himself be pushed aside immediately, though, and continued riding, enabling him to do some crucial work in the final phase.<\/p>\n

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Pedersen praises super-domestique Bernard\u201cA lot of guys wanted to make the break, and a lot of guys didn\u2019t want some other people in the break, so that\u2019s why it went so fast\u201d Pedersen<\/a> analyzed the first hours of the Vuelta stage. “Julien [Bernard] was at the front. He\u2019s such an underestimated bike rider. As a teammate, he\u2019s one of the best guys you can have. If you tell him to pull on the flat, he\u2019s there; on a day like today, he makes the break\u2026 “Pedersen had also seen that leader Giulio Ciccone<\/a> had suddenly been dropped by the rest at the bottom of the final climb. The reason was unknown, but the Italian found his legs again and tried to catch up. Bernard set the pace and brought his leader back. “He was super valuable. When Cicco [Giulio Ciccone] was dropped a bit, Julien waited and pulled for him. I only have good words and massive respect for Julien Bernard. It\u2019s definitely because of people like him that we are able to win bike races, and we\u2019re able of dreaming to win more stages and take this green jersey to the podium in Madrid.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In almost every interview with a cyclist after a race, the team gets praised, the domestiques get compliments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-115705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}