Hot form and cold mind for Søren Kragh Andersen, the Tour de l'Avenir's patron

Soren Kragh Andersen (Denmark)

Soren Kragh Andersen (Denmark) (Image credit: Pierre Carrey)

Danish double stage winner, Søren Kragh Andersen, works a lot on psychology and doesn’t go wild. He was sitting on the hot seat behind the scenes, waiting for his challengers to beat his time and crossing the line, one after the other, on the Tour de l'Avenir's prologue, in Tonnerre, Burgundy. He almost apologized or minimized his performance: "I am not an expert in time trial". He had flown over the cobbles, the 12% climb and the fast downhill where he reached 84km/h, but the Danish strong-boy didn't want to celebrate too much.

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