Lidl-Trek have confirmed that their versatile sprinter Mads Pedersen will proceed within the 2024 Tour de France regardless of a heavy fall on stage 5.
Pedersen suffered an enormous blow to his left shoulder and again as he crashed into the limitations late on the stage, received by Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) for a record-breaking thirty fifth time, however preliminary x-rays revealed no fractures.
Following his fall, Pedersen had a fortunate escape from additional potential damage due to Cofidis leadout man Axel Zingle neatly bunny-hopping throughout the Dane as he lay on the bottom near the Saint Vulbas end.
The workforce mentioned they might revise the state of affairs in a single day and introduced Thursday morning he’ll proceed to race.
“We can affirm that Mads Pedersen will begin stage 6 right now,” learn a message from Lidl-Trek’s press workforce at 10:26 CEST, three hours earlier than the scheduled begin in Mâcon.
Pedersen additionally posted early on his social media this morning that “Icebaths are my greatest pal lately” as he continued his restoration to make sure a begin was potential.
A former World Champion, Pedersen has a seventh and a fourth place to date within the 2024 Tour de France on the phases into Rimini and Turin. He is at present operating second within the inexperienced jersey competitors behind Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) and received the intermediate dash early on the mountainous stage 4.
With two stage wins to his title in 2023 and 2022 and regarded a serious dash participant within the Tour, Pedersen would usually have been a transparent candidate for victory in right now’s flat stage into Dijon, but it surely stays to be seen how rapidly he recovers from his dangerous fall.
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