Mads Pedersen was a non-starter on stage 6 of the Tour de Pologne following his crash within the finale in Katowice on Friday. The Lidl-Trek rider plans to make a swift return to competitors on the Deutschland Tour, which will get beneath means on Wednesday.
“After yesterday’s crash in @tourdepologne the crew and I’ve determined to desert the race,” Pedersen posted on social media on Saturday morning. “Gives me a number of extra days to get well, earlier than @deutschlanddeinetour begins subsequent week!”
Pedersen was among the many fallers in a crash with just a little over 3km remaining on stage 5 to Katowice, the place Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) claimed victory in a bunch dash. Caleb Ewan (Jayco-Alula) and Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) had been additionally held up in the identical crash as Pedersen.
Although Pedersen was in a position to remount and cross the end line, Lidl-Trek introduced on Saturday morning that he had deserted the Tour de Pologne so as to support his restoration forward of the Deutschland Tour.
Pedersen loved a positive Spring Classics marketing campaign, successful Gent-Wevelgem forward of Mathieu van der Poel and putting third at Paris-Roubaix, however his season has additionally been punctuated by sick fortune.
The Dane was among the many fallers within the mass crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen in March, whereas he was pressured to desert the Tour de France in direction of the top of the opening week after coming down in a crash at Saint-Vulbas on stage 5.
Pedersen returned to motion on the Paris 2024 Olympics highway race, the place he positioned twentieth. He is predicted to be among the many foremost contenders for the European Championships highway race in Hasselt on September 15.
