It is 10 years since Denmark saw the Giro on its way (in 2012), the year after hosting the 2011 UCI Road World Championships.ĭenmark currently boasts some of the world’s great road cyclists – Jakob Fuglsang, Mads Pedersen, Jonas Vingegaard, Kasper Asgreen…. The Federation President is proud that his country is hosting this year’s Grand Depart. Like going over cobblestones in the rain at the start of the Tour de France.” “If it’s windy, and the wind comes from the west or north-west, it will be a sidewind and it will be very hard. On paper it is a flat 202.5km stage from Roskilde to Nyborg. Jess Jensen predicts that things could get complicated from the next day.
Tour de France proceedings begin with a 13.2km time trial in the capital Copenhagen and Mr. “It will be possible to lose the Tour in Denmark already before getting to France,” he says gleefully. The Tour de France kicks off in Denmark on Friday 1st July, and the President of the Danish Cycling Federation Henrik Jess Jensen has put out a warning: Episode five of our series Globe Riders takes us to the country hosting this year’s Grand Depart.
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