MØRKØV QUITE THE TRACK RECORD

Michael Mørkøv is like every other selfless domestique who suffers for the benefit of his or her appointed leader. His results rarely reflect his sacrifice, and as he points out: “It’s never me standing on top of the podium with the flowers and the prize money.” But where the Deceuninck-Quick Step rider differs from his peers is that being a good domestique on the road prepares the Dane for individual glory. Mørkøv leads a double life: he is both domestique and serial winner.

As well as delivering Sam Bennett to numerous sprint wins, Mørkøv is the reigning world champion and 2019 European champion in the Madison, with Lasse Norman Hansen, and the Danes are the favourites to win the gold medal in this summer’s Tokyo Olympics. As well as being arguably the best leadout riders in the current peloton, he gets on his bike every day focused on his own triumphs. “Every day I train, I am thinking about the Olympics and telling myself that I am a current world champion,” Mørkøv tells . “When I am on the