It’s not easy to reach cycling’s upper echelons, and it’s even harder to stay there. But for the past four years at least, Mads Pedersen has mastered that task.
Wins in all three Grand Tours and big victories in the Classics, the Lidl-Trek rider would almost certainly have several Monuments on his palmarès if it weren’t for Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel, with the Dane having finished on the podium of either Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders or Paris-Roubaix in each of the last three years.
