{"id":765500,"date":"2026-06-28T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/765500\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:05:10","slug":"he-kickstarted-denmarks-cycling-golden-era-tributes-pour-in-from-danish-pundits-as-magnus-cort-calls-time-on-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/765500\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe kickstarted Denmark\u2019s cycling golden era\u201d: Tributes pour in from Danish pundits as Magnus Cort calls time on his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 35 professional victories, only Mads Pedersen, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/jonas-vingegaard\" title=\"Jonas Vingegaard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> and Rolf Sorensen have won more races among Danish cyclists. His palmar\u00e8s includes two Tour de France stage victories, six stage wins at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and one Giro d&#8217;Italia stage, making him one of the select group of riders to have won stages in all three Grand Tours.Former professional rider and Eurosport analyst Brian Holm believes Danish cycling is saying goodbye to a truly exceptional talent. \u201cIt&#8217;s impressive that Denmark&#8217;s greatest puncheur of all time is retiring while still at the top of his game,\u201d Holm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosport.dk\/cykling\/anders-lund-og-brian-holm-hylder-magnus-cort-han-kickstartede-guldalderen-i-dansk-cykling_sto23313696\/story.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Holm also feels Cort never completely fulfilled his potential despite his remarkable achievements. \u201cAnd yet you still have the feeling that there was even more in him than he managed to show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Danish national coach Anders Lund echoed those sentiments, arguing that Cort played a fundamental role in the emergence of Denmark&#8217;s current generation of elite riders. \u201cPassion is a cyclist&#8217;s most important fuel. If that starts to disappear, it becomes very difficult to remain a professional. I have enormous respect for Cort and everything he has achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lund believes Cort&#8217;s influence extends well beyond his victories. \u201cCort was the rider who kickstarted Denmark&#8217;s cycling golden era, and he has been one of the country&#8217;s biggest stars for more than ten years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although retirement is now on the horizon, Cort still has one major objective remaining before ending his career.<\/p>\n<p>The Dane is expected to line up at the 2026 Tour de France, where he will attempt to add a third Tour stage victory to an already outstanding list of achievements before bringing one of Danish cycling&#8217;s most successful careers to a close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 35 professional victories, only Mads Pedersen, Jonas Vingegaard and Rolf Sorensen have won more races among Danish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,164463,784,6495,364782,85],"class_list":["post-765500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brian-holm","tag-cycling","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-magnus-cort-nielsen","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765500","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=765500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}