Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek): “No, I didn’t try to reach the breakaway, we tried to control the race for [Giulio] Ciccone, we had to be in the mix to control the breakaway. I don’t even know what happened in the race, I know [Jonas Vingegaard] won and that’s it. Maybe you have to ask me the day after (laughing). I know that he won, good job, and I have to see what happened with Cicco. If [Vingegaard] keeps winning the mountain stages, he will earn the points and the [green] jersey, it is what it is, but we won’t give it up for free and he can’t also win every mountain stages. So we will see, we keep fighting.”
La Vuelta 2025 – 9th stage – Alfaro > Estacion de Esqui de Valdezcaray (195,5 km) – 31/08/2025 – Mads PEDERSEN (LIDL-TREK) © Unipublic/Rafa Gomez