Danish dynamite in the International Three Days of Axel
Door René van Stee
STRIJPEN showed the Danes of the Team last year Blue Water Cycling Juniorendriedaagse with two vultures already in the international stages and the final victory of Alexander camp. This time showed the Scandinavians dominate equally. Unleashed end winner Mads Würtz-Schmidt was barely herb crops. The world champion time trial Juniors Sunday wrote the concluding stage not only on his name, also Strijpen-Strijpen (like last year) he showed his supremacy in the time trial Axel-Axel of Saturday morning. The blonde rider raffelde the 7.8 kilometers in 9.33, 48 minutes, good for an average of almost 49 kilometers per hour. Würtz-Schmidts land and teammate Mathias westergaard also wrote the stage Axel-Axel (99.6 km) to his name, while Team Blue Water Cycling also won the team ranking.
Although he pointed out that this edition of the three-day an exceptional departure information, explained team manager Karsten Larsen stood that the successes not his house. The great triumphs of Bjarne Riis, the best Danish professional cyclist of all time, in the 1990s, according to him, the basic shapes. Since then, there are many more boys and girls go cycling. Nowadays we are very strong In breadth. That is borne out by the fact that we have at least eight Continental teams at the promises driving around. Also the sponsorship has a high flight taken, inter alia through Saxo Bank, this allows us to give the youth riders the guidance and support that is needed to be able to drive at a high level, "he said.
Würtz-Schmidt could find themselves entirely in the words of his coach. ,, It doesn't even matter whether we in Denmark or abroad rates. There is always fought on the razor's edge, "said Würtz-Schmidt, who in the final standings to second place on Hawk Piotr 1.07 minutes referred. The German rider Leon claimed the third place for Rohde on 1.59 minutes.
The hunger of Würtz-Schmidt, already winner of Paris-Roubaix this year also at the juniors and the interest at various Continental teams, is far from appeased. His vizier is particularly aimed at the World Championships in Valkenburg, where he wants to prolong his time trial title. Also he goes for gold with the Danish time trial team.
