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Compared to Poland where everyone rode for a sprint/punch finish no matter what course the organiser proposed, it makes a big difference when there is at least one audacious half-mutant on the race.
Thank you, Mads🇩🇰. And congratulations to all those (80% Danish!) which managed to follow, from the bunch or the breakaway. Almost all Conti teams riders...
Bad luck for the Decathlon (Conti development team) Norwegian guy Dahl🇳🇴 who lost the wheels a few miles from the goal and was caught up by the bunch. Haugsted🇩🇰 (Coloquick) always looked like he was going to be dropped any minute in the final part, but he managed to finish 3^rd^.
The drawback of the 40 seconds gap over the bunch created by this attack on the first stage, is that stages #4 and #5 will probably be ridden very defensively.
I don't understand how, on the classification published on PCS at the moment, many gaps of 1 single second are reported. That's not completely impossible, but almost impossible within a group (because the last guy before the split passes significantly later than the first one which is the subgroup reference time). So it's basically impossible to have 10 guys counted at time 0, 10 guys at time +1s, 10 guys at time +2s like it is shown now. Perhaps will it be modified.
Pretty entertaining for a mostly flat course with a couple of steep climbs, and good for the race that Lidl-Trek and Mads Pedersen likes to ride on the offense! I was very impressed that Haugsted managed to hang on for the sprint, even more that he managed to come third. I see he's won Frankfurt-Eschborn U23 this year so this type of terrain and course must be his force.
Not a strong field this year, but the Danish conti-riders are actually really strong. This type of hardman race is what they all do every weekend at local races, so I am not surprised so many managed to hang on. We will see them drop when the distance goes to 220 like on the Vejle-stage, most of them do 150-180 races max.
I agree about the timings, I expect them to be corrected unless it's a new sort of timekeeping system.