This year, the Star of Bessèges will have a new winner. Defending champion Mads Pedersen will not start the third stage. The Dane of Lidl-Trek has stomach problems and could not compete in the first ...

Mads Pedersen speaks as he likes to race: with blunt power. There's little room for subtlety and small talk, especially when he is battered and bruised after the Dwars door Vlaanderen crash and ...