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MADS ON A MISSION

How do you kick off an Tadej Pogačar – from the scene. With those generational talents out of the way, then surely he, Mads it would be OK for me if they weren’t interview with a rider who admits he has a “super high” ego? You paint a picture of him winning literally everything, absenting his main rivals – Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert and Pedersen, would take a clean sweep? “I can’t answer that,” he cuts in, gruffly, “because they are here, and I can’t change that fact.” Flattery has got me nowhere. “Look, they are here, so it’s just a factor we have to deal with when we’re racing,” he continues. “They are also super good for the sport – cycling is better with them, even if sometimes there. Anyway, even if they weren’t around, there’d be someone else who’d show up.”

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