TREK METAMORPHOSIS
he two-week period at the end of 2019 that saw Mads Pedersen win the road world title and Bauke Mollema win Il Lombardia most neatly encompasses the reinvention that’s been ongoing at Trek-Segafredo in recent years. One, a nutured young rider of just 23 landing a career-defining breakthrough victory for the rainbow stripes; the other a decade older, a valued team-player who’s been with the squad for six years, winning a debut monument. The two were at opposite ends of the spectrum - one youthful, one full of experience, one Danish, one Dutch - but they had provided their American team with its two biggest victories in years, the biggest perhaps since Fabian Cancellara, once the squad’s stalwart and talisman, won the last of
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