“When I started a classic, we believe it is possible to win. And Roubaix is a unique career in the history of cycling. This time I would like to win a monument“, Start Mads Pedersen. It attends a small group of international media, including MD, after showing to Eurosport Your documentary ‘Chaning Cobbles, Mads Pedersen’, Released on March 15. With him intimate his preparation for his great purpose during this 2025 period: to win one of the great historic classics of cycling.
World Champion in 2019, the Danish cyclist of Lidl-Trek It ended a few days ago on Milan-San Remo, second after Mathieu Van Der Poel at E3 last Friday and Gante-wevelgem took this week. At attention he has two great trials to come in the next few days: The Flanders Tour this Sunday and the Paris-Rubaix to play seven days later. They were his great buzas to give the glitter of a palmraés with forty unprofessional successes which, in addition to that rainbow, a stage at Tour de France, another on tour of Italy and three on Spain tour.
He knew he could do it because he was in the Great Classics in recent years. Since 2022, San Remo, Flanders and RoubAix have been debated every year, Only in the RoubAix of that period (he left) and in the Tour de Flanders of 2024 (it was twenty -Second) he remained out of the top8 of one of the three great evidence. The goal of this 2025 was to show that it could take another step and flank and RoubAix, races with great competition and with Mathieu Van Der Poel and Tadej Pogacar as two of the great candidates for the successes, were the main scenarios that emerged for it.
“I think all the monuments adapt to me well. I can’t choose one”said Pedersen. “That’s why my way of preparing for races has not changed. It’s the same as before,” he explained. Both always require complete physical and mental planning to give the maximum on the main day. Pedersen’s confidence in his team is total to try to pay at the best possible level at great appointments. “If my coach told me to better train in a certain way, I do it”account. “I think this is the best guide to do what I do, because my rivals are practicing a lot and I need to do what they ask me if I want to be the best,” he explained.
That work is what reflects the ‘claim of cobbles, Mads Pedersen’. “I have to work a lot of thinking and physically to be prepared to record it”Tell how another day to tell his story to fight himself. Also, the similar challenges marked, such as offering a great success to his teammates, and which drives him not to give up on his challenges. “It’s not about surrender. When you fail you, nothing changes. You need to move inside and out”Pedersen reflects. “Students make the same sacrifice as me and do it to help me. You have to be always to win,” he summarized.
The demand for the day -day
That continued summary one day -day focused on bicycle goals. “I’m trying to show in the four stages of the documentary all around cycling, everything behind, the people involved,” Pedersen said. “I have framed different challenges to help me get the biggestBecause I already know to win the best career I need my team. To cyclists and everyone behind it, ”he said.
The surroundings of your team a day -to -day basis suggests stop making your nearest circle. “I don’t see my dad, for example, but it’s part of difficult training. To do this work you have to do it,” Pedersen explained. “I don’t see my family, but it’s important for my goals to go to Mallorca and make concentrations, for example. There are major parts of the year where you need it, ”he added.
Resignation required for cycling at the highest level, even when when He wants to be the leader. “I feel that I am, because I think it’s something I’ve learned for years”Pedersen reflects. “I’m not preparing to think about trying to be a leader. I’m just trying to do it the best way to get results and send that leadership,” he said. But the limits of that paper are clear. “Cycling is a sport with lots of egos and team directors will have to find a great combination between leaders and other cyclists, so I wasn’t touched to make decisions“, Account.
But his position on Lidl-Trek, along with other big runners such as Bauke Mollema, Jasper Stuyven, Giulio Ciccone, Man Geoghegan Hart or Jonathan Milan, among others, is strong. “I know the team signed people to help me winThe same way they signed ‘Jony’ (Milan) OA (Simone) consonni to win a career, “said Pedersen.” The team has to make decisions, “he said.
They are cyclists, while, in charge of the fact that the team environment is the best try to enhance their performance. “We spend a lot of time together and In the documentary you will see that we are a large group of friends“Said Pedersen.” The team is beautiful, the team has a nice time together and the environment is positive for the team to continue to grow, “Mads said. So it is clear that Pedersen has shared duties. For example, including Milan. “It’s great to have it on the team, because Being the same we can push ourselves to our limits“, He said about his partner.” That can come to us more and continue fighting, “he said.
A quarrel where you overcame difficult moments
Fighting to the purpose of winning a monument is something Mads Pedersen always does. He did this in 2024 after winning the second of the three Gante-wevelgem that appeared in his note, but the days he suffered by the flanders that he had reduced for the Flanders tour that was controversial below, where he was twenty-seconds. “At that time it would be worth me to proceed with the belief that it was possible, but I have recovered the trust thanks to the people who helped me recover To be one hundred percent, ”Pedersen said.
Self -confidence is one of the keys of Danish cyclist’s sports career. This is something that has always been -stick. “I don’t know where that trust came from. Simply put it on me”Reflect. “My parents always told me that if I could trust myself, I would achieve my goals. So I think it was something more time,” he explained.
The results have been proven to him to this day: he has arranged in important positions of monuments and dreams of making the jump from his second place at Tour de Flandes 2018 and from the third of the same race in 2023 and the Paris-Rubaix 2024 to the first place. “When we finished Paris-Rubaix last year, it was a good moment for me. Being in the podium was something I enjoyed. Not only me, but all the people who are part of the road, “Pedersen explained. The results, with six Top7s in the last seven monuments he played since 2023 re -proved their preparation.” It’s always the same for different monuments, ”he said.
Therefore, the Danish cyclist prepares to deal with the main part of the season for him. He prepared the diligent to make one of the most powerful classics in the world. He knew he would have rivals of maximum creatures. But his self -confidence is also full to do that step. Therefore, from Sunday to Sunday he lives his main week to fulfill his dream: This is the one that separates the Flanders Tour from Paris-Rubaix, the two quotes marked with red in the massive challenge of Mads Pedersen.
Source: La Verdad
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