{"id":524582,"date":"2026-03-09T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524582\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:18:10","slug":"milan-sanremo-and-e3-will-be-very-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524582\/","title":{"rendered":"Milan\u2013Sanremo and E3 \u201cwill be very difficult\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mads Pedersen<\/a> is currently in a race against the clock. The Dane from Lidl\u2013Trek crashed at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, fracturing his collarbone and a hand. That has left major uncertainty hanging over his spring campaign. Pedersen had once again made the Monuments a key target, but the outlook has only become more concerning in his podcast Lang Distance<\/a>Earlier<\/a>, he had already shared a far-from-optimistic update. \u201cIt\u2019s a shame, but we also don\u2019t know how the body will respond. If I make it to the Classics<\/a>, those will be my first races,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cThat\u2019s different to going in after you\u2019ve been able to race, so it\u2019s a big question mark what my legs will be like. But if we didn\u2019t believe in it, I wouldn\u2019t be destroying myself on the indoor trainer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pedersen is clearly putting in serious work, but the process is not going smoothly. The former world champion (Harrogate, 2019) would normally be Lidl\u2013Trek\u2019s leader for the cobbled Classics, yet the American team is now facing the prospect of lining up without their three-time Gent\u2013Wevelgem winner. With riders like Mathias Vacek, Toms Skuji\u0146\u0161 and others, Lidl\u2013Trek still has plenty of strength in depth \u2014 but if Pedersen can\u2019t make the start, his absence would be a major blow on the cobbles.<\/p>\n

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\"madsWill Pedersen\u2019s spring still come good? \u201cIt\u2019s going to be very difficult\u201d<\/p>\n

And it is starting to look that way more and more. Milan\u2013Sanremo is scheduled for 21 March, but it appears increasingly unlikely that the Danish powerhouse will be on the start line for La Primavera. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be very difficult. Even making E3 (27 March) will be tough,\u201d he said, sounding sombre. \u201cIt\u2019s still a complicated fracture and the bones in the hand haven\u2019t healed yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe splint I had was only to keep everything in place, and now it needs to heal properly again,\u201d he explained about his wrist. \u201cThe collarbone also hasn\u2019t healed yet. So it\u2019s not safe to ride a bike again and spend many hours out on the road. We keep working on it and we\u2019ll try to see if it can happen, and we\u2019ll believe in it until the end \u2014 but nothing is certain yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mads Pedersen is currently in a race against the clock. The Dane from Lidl\u2013Trek crashed at the Volta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,33043,635,206559,50278,166274,82],"class_list":["post-524582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-classics","tag-cycling","tag-e3-saxo-classic","tag-mads-pedersen","tag-milan-san-remo","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}