{"id":63511,"date":"2025-08-13T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63511\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:48:09","slug":"tour-of-denmark-stage-2-can-mads-pedersen-hold-off-jasper-philpsen-in-a-day-for-the-sprinters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63511\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Denmark Stage 2 \u2013 Can Mads Pedersen hold off Jasper Philpsen in a day for the sprinters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the 12th to the 16th of August the peloton will be in<br \/>\nDenmark for the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-of-denmark\" title=\"Tour of Denmark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour of Denmark<\/a>, and tomorrow it is time for stage 2. After a<br \/>\ndramatic opening day, the sprinters will once again be eyeing glory in what<br \/>\nshould be one of the fastest (and shortest) stages of the race. We <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/preview\" title=\"Preview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preview<\/a><br \/>\nstage 2.Stage 1 saw the home hero <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/mads-pedersen\" title=\"Mads Pedersen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mads Pedersen<\/a> make a triumphant<br \/>\nreturn to his homeland, taking the win after a relentlessly aggressive ride<br \/>\nalongside his Lidl-Trek teammates. The opening day\u2019s decisive move came from a<br \/>\nselect group of nine riders, and in the sprint to the line it was no surprise<br \/>\nto see Pedersen unleash a dominant kick, finishing ahead of Lukas Kubis and<br \/>\nConrad Haugsted. The result puts him into the race lead after just one day of<br \/>\nracing, and he is looking in strong form for the Vuelta later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 2 takes the peloton from Rodovre to Gladsaxe. It\u2019s a<br \/>\ncompletely flat day with little to note in the way of elevation, meaning the<br \/>\noutcome will almost certainly come down to a bunch sprint. The finale features<br \/>\na three-lap circuit around the host town, with the last lap leading directly<br \/>\ninto the finish line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the 12th to the 16th of August the peloton will be in Denmark for the Tour of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-63511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63511","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=63511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}