A 12-week recovery period. That’s how long medical staff expected Mads Pedersen to be out of action following his untimely crash on the opening day of his 2026 season. The Dane fractured his left wrist, broke his collarbone, and, in effect, wrote off his entire Spring Classics campaign in the incident.
Yet just six weeks later, half of what was originally planned, the Lidl-Trek rider was named in the team’s Milan-San Remo line-up. He would ultimately finish fourth in the Monument and be the second rider home in the bunch, as Tadej Pogačar and Tom Pidcock duked it out for the title just up the road.
