{"id":802401,"date":"2026-07-15T19:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/802401\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:17:15","slug":"mads-pedersen-wearing-the-green-jersey-after-the-bunch-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/802401\/","title":{"rendered":"Mads Pedersen, wearing the green jersey, after the bunch sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mads Pedersen<\/a> finished 11th in Wednesday\u2019s Tour de France sprint in Nevers, a result with which the Dane from Lidl-Trek<\/a> was moderately satisfied. Afterward,<\/a> he was especially happy that Soren Waerenskjold of Uno-X\u2014who, for the record, is not competing for the points classification<\/a> \u2014won the stage and not one of the other sprinters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pedersen took stock of the race after the finish. \u201cThe intermediate sprint was pretty good, but the finish was definitely not good enough. That\u2019s a shame. At one point, I had to slow down quite a bit to get into the sprint train, and then I ended up in the maelstrom. It\u2019s just not easy to find the gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n

“It’s no excuse; I’m just not good enough at it,” says the always honest Pedersen. “It\u2019s disappointing to finish eleventh; it would have been nice to finish fifth, sixth, or seventh\u2014hard to say\u2014but I can be glad that Kanter, Philipsen, and Girmay didn\u2019t win the stage.”<\/p>\n

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Soren Waerenskold won, and Mads Pedersen was happy about that.<\/p>\n

Pedersen still needs to finish Thursday’s stage strong in terms of pointsHow did he manage the fastest stage ever at the Tour<\/a>? \u201cWell, it was actually pretty easy. I think it was especially grueling for the guys at the front and the teams that had to lead out. But for the rest of us, it was actually a great day. It\u2019s not that hard if you\u2019re constantly drafting. With a course like this, where the pace stays high all day, it\u2019s not as bad as you\u2019d think. It\u2019s nowhere near as hard as it sounds.’<\/p>\n

For the wearer of the green jersey, the focus is now on Thursday\u2019s stage, which will likely end in another sprint. \u201cBut then we\u2019ll have had the real flat sprinter stages. The big points will have been distributed by then. I\u2019m still very much in the running for the green jersey; I\u2019m wearing it today, and hopefully I\u2019ll still be wearing it after tomorrow. So yes, our approach isn\u2019t changing. From that point on, it\u2019s a matter of staying alert and jumping in wherever possible with the team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mads Pedersen finished 11th in Wednesday\u2019s Tour de France sprint in Nevers, a result with which the Dane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,49602,63568,85,346968],"class_list":["post-802401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-lidl-trek","tag-mads-pedersen","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802401","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=802401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}