{"id":515628,"date":"2026-04-06T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515628\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:59:13","slug":"ive-said-it-so-many-times-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515628\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve said it so many times already\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fact that Mads Pedersen<\/a> still managed to finish fifth in the Tour of Flanders<\/a> after his disrupted spring can fairly be called a minor miracle. The Dane of Lidl-Trek<\/a> was initially able to follow the other top contenders, but on the toughest climbs he eventually had to let them go. A top-five finish was the best he could achieve, but did that leave him satisfied? There was a telling moment after the finish, when Pedersen and Tadej Poga\u010dar shook hands. \u201cSee you next week,\u201d the world champion said. Pedersen congratulated him on the victory. \u201cI don\u2019t know what he did,\u201d Pedersen said afterwards in the flash interview<\/a>, having crossed the line almost three minutes behind the winner. \u201cHe won, congratulations. Congratulating him is the least I can do. Chapeau.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few months ago, Pedersen was still badly battered after crashing in the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, where he broke his collarbone and wrist. \u201cThis was the best possible result. If there had been more in it, I would have finished better, right? I didn\u2019t have any more left in the tank. We knew I would suffer on the climbs, and that was the case again today. It is what it is, it was solid. Now we look ahead to next week,\u201d he said, referring to Paris-Roubaix.<\/p>\n

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\"Pogacar-evenepoel-kwaremont\"\/Pedersen frustrated: \u2018I\u2019ve said it so many times already\u2019<\/p>\n

With fewer climbs, Paris-Roubaix should suit him better. In Flanders, Pedersen simply could not go with the very best uphill. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter now whether I was close or not: if you\u2019re not there, then you\u2019re not there. Whether it\u2019s 10 metres or 100 metres. They were simply faster than me. I\u2019ve said it so many times already since last week: because of the injury, I\u2019m just missing that little bit in those moments. We saw that again today. But I still beat the rest, and they didn\u2019t have an injury. So I can be satisfied with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

After being dropped on the Oude Kwaremont<\/a>, the Lidl-Trek leader managed to get back to Wout van Aert<\/a>. The two joined forces in the chase. \u201cThere was hope that we could come back to Remco. Wout was really strong; he had to wait for me on the Koppenberg. On the Kwaremont I knew I would struggle, and that\u2019s where he really went for it. It doesn\u2019t matter who you ask: everyone was flat out all the way to the finish.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fact that Mads Pedersen still managed to finish fifth in the Tour of Flanders after his disrupted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,109119,114899,101,8782,110664,56,54,55,8783],"class_list":{"0":"post-515628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-lidl-trek","10":"tag-mads-pedersen","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tadej-pogacar","13":"tag-tour-of-flanders","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-wout-van-aert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}