Us: Dude, you got a tattoo! Mads: What does it say? Us: 2025! Mads: Sweet!
Mads Pedersen has officially renovated his contract with Trek - Segafredo, as the American team conserved another of it's leaders. The Dane has just finished a stint of racing at home in Denmark, and will remain a threatening rider at the Tour de France.
The announcement was made this afternoon. Pedersen is not the first rider signing a long-term contract with the team this season, as both Jasper Stuyven and Bauke Mollema have signed until 2025 and 2026 respectively. Trek are looking at a long-term approach to it's lineup, having it's leaders signed in the first place.
Pedersen has finished sixth and third in the two opening stages of the Tour de France and is seeking the yellow jersey on the coming days. This year he has taken wins at Paris-Nice, Etoile de Bessèges, Circuit Cycliste Sarthe and the Baloise Belgium Tour.
A shocking World championships winner in Yorkshire 2019, Pedersen has developed himself first as a quality classics rider having won Gent-Wevelgem and Kuurne-Bruxels-Kuurne aswell as runner-up at the Tour des Flandres 2018. He's ridden into a spot as one of the World's best sprinters in the meantime, having taken many high-level wins whilst still being a strong classics rider with tremendous versatility.
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- Can anyone explain how on earth inhaling poisonous gas could be in any way beneficial for a rider?VinnySport12-11-2024
- Relax. It's only entertainment. No one pretended it to be otherwise. Sir Mark deserves such a spectacle and a salute. No need to be such a tight a**BM12-11-2024
- When it comes to saying stupid things, Thijs Zonneveld takes the cake. It's as if he's never followed bike racing before.
santiagobenites12-11-2024 - Most of Cavendish's wins where off the back of a sprint train so ½ of the effort was already done...
leedorney12-11-2024 - Quite right, writing off Jonas for 2025 victory after what he still managed under the circumstances is a big mistake. Riders are probably peaking younger these days which means they may not last as long and we might have to stop expecting progress until early thirties.Mistermaumau12-11-2024
- You only had to look at the faces of half the riders at the front to see what was going on. Looking to the side into tge crowds to hide their incapacity to stay serious and concentrated.Mistermaumau12-11-2024
- Maybe the greatest sprinter on roads but not the greatest pure sprinter, I think that’d be the chap who consistently beats everyone almost all the time, who at 27 has already been world champion 16x, european champion 12x, amassed 5 olympic golds plus a bronze and is far from finished. He may not becomes the first ever person to average 80km/h in a sprint (without a lead-out) but no-one has got closer.Mistermaumau11-11-2024
- If one can improve so can the other. The other day we were discussing Tadej’s leg shape change, if that is anything to go by, Jonas has plenty of potential left too.Mistermaumau11-11-2024
- He should exit to free up.the budget for younger riders and help the team reach its full potential. Basically he is just taking from the team at this point because he cannot bring any new money in from his performances. I mean sure getting to live the life of a pro another year as a circus attraction of sorts might be fun but it's just gotten selfish the past 2 years.northcarolinaeric11-11-2024
- Pog is the modern day Merckx. And the best part is he is a very nice guy too!
ScottG11-11-2024