{"id":187458,"date":"2025-10-03T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187458\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:17:07","slug":"mads-pedersen-gives-european-championships-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187458\/","title":{"rendered":"Mads Pedersen gives European championships update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bummer news for the Dane Mads Pedersen. His standout year has come to a sudden stop. The former world champion has been forced out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/israel-confirms-riders-for-european-championships-amid-security-measures\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European championships road race due to illness<\/a>. This ends what was arguably the most successful season of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Lidl\u2013Trek has confirmed he will miss both the M\u00fcnsterland Giro and the continental championships.<\/p>\n<p>An impressive season for Mads Pedersen comes to a close<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a long and successful season, Mads Pedersen has been taken out of action by illness,\u201d the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LidlTrek\/status\/1974029916719997414\" rel=\"nofollow\">said in a statement on X<\/a>. \u201cHe will miss the M\u00fcnsterland Giro as well as the European championship, and his season is now over. Get well soon, Mads!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pedersen had been in line to support fellow Dane Jonas Vingegaard in France. Instead, his season ends with a pretty long list of achievements: four Giro d\u2019Italia stage wins, the Vuelta a Espana points title and a stage win, Gent\u2013Wevelgem, plus podiums at Paris\u2013Roubaix, the Tour of Flanders. He also soled to the win at the E3 Saxo Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the road race is shaping up to be quite the battle. This marks one of Vingegaard\u2019s rare forays into one-day racing. The Dane is more used to racing stage races (quite well, as cycling fans know) but the hilly course in France suits him. But he faces stiff competition from his arch rival\u2013two time world road champion Tadej Poga\u010dar.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s also three-time world champion, Remco Evenepoel. The Belgian must be looking to exact revenge after finishing a disappointing (well, for him) second at the world road race championships. (Imagine being such a superstar that you are bummed at a silver at the worlds.) Evenepoel\u2019s day in Rwanda went south after getting dropped up Mount Kigali, along with a number of bike changes\u2013some which may not have been necessary, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/evenepoels-mechanic-insists-nothing-wrong-with-the-second-bike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belgian team mechanic.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bummer news for the Dane Mads Pedersen. His standout year has come to a sudden stop. The former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[119344,64,63,784,6495,63568,85],"class_list":["post-187458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2025-european-championships","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-mads-pedersen","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187458","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=187458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}