Mads Pedersen looks unlikely to make Milan-San Remo

Mads Pedersen is racing against time after his crash in the Tour of Valencia to be fit in time for his beloved spring classics, but it increasingly looks like he won’t start Milan-San Remo (March 21).

In the Danish podcast Lang Distance, Pedersen gives an update more than a month after his heavy crash in the Tour of Valencia. During this crash, the Harrogate world champion broke his left wrist and right collarbone.

By now, the classics specialist of Lidl-Trek is already riding more than twenty hours a week on the rollers and has joined the team on a training camp, but that doesn’t mean everything is going smoothly again. Pedersen fears he might miss the season’s first monument, Milan-San Remo.

"It’s going to be very tough. Even making the E3 Saxo Classic (March 27) will still be a big challenge. It’s still a complicated fracture and the bones in my hand have not healed yet. The splint was only there to keep everything in place."

"Now everything has to heal properly and healthily," Pedersen explains. "My collarbone isn’t fully healed either. In short, it’s still not safe to race or to train many hours on the road. But we keep working on it. We believe in it until the very last moment, but right now nothing is certain."