Cyclist: Danish cycling is thriving right now. What do you put that down to?
Mads Pedersen: The whole support chain we had from a young age, with local clubs who made cycling fun for us when we were kids; the national team who started to work with us when we were about 15 years old; and the junior and Continental teams afterwards. It’s really paying off right now and showing the skills of Danish cyclists to the whole world.
Cyc: How has that translated into the way the Danish national team works?
If you take a big country like Italy, some riders won’t see each other until they are at under-23 level. But in Denmark, we’ve been
