{"id":64761,"date":"2025-08-12T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64761\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:57:07","slug":"triumphant-homecoming-for-mads-pedersen-who-wins-stage-1-of-the-2025-tour-of-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64761\/","title":{"rendered":"Triumphant homecoming for Mads Pedersen who wins stage 1 of the 2025 Tour of Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/mads-pedersen\" title=\"Mads Pedersen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mads Pedersen<\/a> has made a triumphant return to his homeland and has taken the win on the opening stage of the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-of-denmark\" title=\"Tour of Denmark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour of Denmark<\/a> following an attacking day in the saddle by him and his <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/lidl-trek\" title=\"Lidl-Trek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lidl-Trek<\/a> teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Six riders got themselves into the day&#8217;s early breakaway. Among the notable names on the attack were UAE&#8217;s Julius Johansen, riding for the Danish national team, Victor Vercouillie of Team Flanders &#8211; Baloise and\u00a0Marius Innhaug Dahl (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Team). After things settled into a rhythm after the initial split, with 42km to go, the race was ignited once again by a dangerous counter-move by Lidl-Trek&#8217;s Soren Kragh Andersen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whilst that move was unsuccessful, Lidl-Trek weren&#8217;t frustrated and moments after Kragh Andersen was caught, none other than Mads Pedersen countered with an attack of his own, with <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/mattias-skjelmose\" title=\"Mattias Skjelmose\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mattias Skjelmose<\/a> joining him. Heading into the final 20km, Johansen and Magnus Bak Klaris were the only riders from the original break still clear, with the Pedersen &#8211; Skjelmose group around 20 seconds behind, and the main peloton a minute down.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mads Pedersen has made a triumphant return to his homeland and has taken the win on the opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-64761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64761","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=64761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}