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    DEFINING DANISH MOMENTS

    Jun 30, 2022 4 minutes

    For many people, Denmark in the Tour de France looks like one thing: an image of an emaciated balding man throwing his spindly arms in the air, as if a malnourished accountant has won a competition to be the yellow jersey for a day. That disturbing dreamscape was a nightmare for cycling in the darkest days of the sport, but there’s much more to Denmark’s history in the Tour than Bjarne Riis and his mid-Nineties experimentations in pharmacological excess.

    1 Denmark’s first Tour man

    It began in 1913 when a Dane living in Cherbourg named Christian Christensen became the first from his country to line up at the Tour, then marking its 11th edition. This

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