brun sweater wrote:
For outsiders, it's impossible to judge his work, since he most probably have been working for better riders the entire season. Just finishing this seasons Giro was a great succes for him imo. If his motivation is driven by results, then he have chosen the wrong team. If, as an examble, his entire season was build around Tour of Denmark, as was the story for all the danish continental riders riding that race, he might have ended on the podium, and for sure would've been in the top10.

And he actually did an overall top10 in Tour de Wallonie, which is more than most other danish riders (Tour of Denmark result doesn't count )

Stairs wrote:
Maybe a new view on Mads Kaggestad in that case?

brun sweater wrote:
Well, compared to other danish talents, Anders Lund is one of the greatest. This season he has done nothing, except some top10's in Wallonie, but nobody really expectet him to do better?

I rate him in the top5 of young danish cycling talents. If he can keep on progressing, he'll end up being a good domestique some day?

Breschel
Fuglsang
Alex Rasmussen
Bøchmann
Lund

?

brun sweater wrote:
Juniors doesn't count . Besides Lund was once 2nd in the junior worldchampionship, so ...

Steensen is a good bid as well.

Stairs wrote:


Indeed, it's hard to predict - I think a lot rated Martin Pedersen, whose mentality propably ended up being the problem, and Anders Lund as future super stars of Denmark after the 2005 season. The same goes for Niki Østergaard who I saw as maybe the biggest talent for years in Denmark - he couldn't quite keep up with the pro-mentality so he's back on the national scene. Still, I think Sebastian Lander seems like a good bid for at future Danish classics-man.

From Torelli's History of the Tour de France

The ninth stage, from Saarluis in Germany to Mulhouse back in France, produced a strange day of racing. On the final ascent of the day, the Grand Ballon, Mogens Frey and Joaquim Agostinho, both members of the same Frimatic team, broke away. Frey had escaped earlier and Agostinho had bridged up to him. They descended together and for a while traded pace, relaying each other during the final 20 kilometers. Then Frey stopped working and just sat on Agostinho's wheel. The team manager drove up and told Frey to work. Perhaps the Dane did not understand any French. In any case, Frey refused to work and stayed glued to Agostinho's wheel, keeping his nose out of the wind.

When it came time for the sprint Agostinho, thinking it would be a show sprint that his teammate Frey wouldn't contest, started to wind it out. To Agostinho's astonishment Frey started to come around him. Furious, Agostinho rode his bike to the side of the road to force Frey to go the long way around. Frey kept coming so Agostinho put his hands out to try to block him. Angry and desperate he finally grabbed Frey's jersey and managed to cross the line first.

The band at the finish line played the Portugese national anthem in celebration of Agostinho's victory. Agostinho was sure of both his win and the force of justice and did a victory lap. The race jury didn't think that was how a race should be won and awarded the stage to Frey, relegating Agostinho to second.

Agostinho said that Frey had made signs (they didn't speak a common language) that Frey would not contest the sprint and felt cheated by Frey's cheap attempt to win the stage. Later Frey explained that he had broken away first and that Agostinho had no business bridging up to him, potentially bringing other riders along. Team boss De Gribaldy, unhappy with the mess, made the 2 share the same hotel room that night.

issoisso wrote:
Hardly poor Agostinho, he had an immensely better career

Frey on the other hand didn't have much else, so it's more of a minor nuisance for Agostinho.