Two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) has not been chosen for the Olympic Video games in Paris, with Mikkel Bjerg (UAE Staff Emirates) taking on the final of Denmark’s 4 allotted locations.
Bjerg will experience the highway race on August 3 alongside Mads Pedersen, Mattias Skjelmose (each Lidl-Trek), and Michael Mørkøv (Astana Qazaqstan), who had already been introduced by the Danish Olympic committee. Mørkøv can even compete on the monitor.
It is going to be Bjerg’s first Olympic Video games and he can even be Denmark’s consultant for the person time trial on July twenty seventh.
In November final yr, Vingegaard declared that he wish to go to the Olympics in Paris, saying to Danish information company Ritzau “I hope that I shall be chosen, but it surely is not going to shock me if I’m not. It might be that the nationwide coach chooses 4 others as a substitute.”
The Visma-Lease a Bike rider is getting back from damage after a crash within the Itzulia Basque nation in April. He’s at the moment coaching at altitude in Tignes as he seeks to defend his Tour de France crown.
All in for Mads Pedersen
Hopes for a Danish medal on the Olympic Video games in Paris relaxation on the shoulders of 2019 world champion Mads Pedersen. The 28-year-old is effectively suited to the classics-style course round Paris which takes within the quick sharp Côte de la Butte Montmatre on the closing laps. Bjerg is about to play a supporting function for Pedersen within the highway race.
“I stay up for serving to Mads. I’m an assistant rider every day and specialize in simply that. I do know I could make a distinction to the crew. We have now a powerful Danish crew, and we should present that we’re able to battle for the medals in Paris,” Bjerg stated on the Denmark Sport Federation’s web site.
Final month, Bjerg performed a key function in Tadej Pogačar’s Giro d’Italia win. He revealed that he’ll now skip the Tour de France as a way to concentrate on the Olympic Video games. Bjerg has his personal aspirations in Paris for the person time trial, wherein he’s an outsider for a medal.
“I stay up for the time trial. I’ve labored with time trials for 10 years, and I do know what it takes to ‘peak’ in that self-discipline,” stated Bjerg.
“I’m extremely proud to be going to the Olympics. I’ve gone all in. Since December I’ve solely been at house 14 days, and in any other case I’ve simply [been at] races and been to coaching camps. I selected to experience the Giro d’Italia and skip the Tour de France as a way to be fully prepared for the Olympics. That is why I am additionally actually relieved to be chosen.”
