Danish duo does the business in Gent

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Reigning Madison world champions Alex Rasmussen and Michael Mørkøv convincingly lead the 69th Gent Six Day after the opening night. The Danish duo accumulated 98 points and lead the second place team of Iljo Keisse and Roger Kluge by 24 points. Two points behind Keisse and Kluge in third place is the Swiss team of Bruno Risi and Franco Marvulli.

The fourth place team of Kenny De Ketele and Robert Bartko trail the Danes by 65 points but did not lose any laps.

Rasmussen and Mørkøv won the team elimination, the first Madison and the 500-metre time trial and narrowly missed sweeping the timed events, finishing second on the flying lap event by the narrowest of margins.

"We were ahead of things all evening," said Mørkøv. "It took us a while, though, to get to know the track and it cost us the victory in our favorite discipline [the flying lap] in which we were beaten by the Swiss [Risi and Marvulli] by 0.01 seconds. Although we missed out on this single victory the track seemed tailor-made for us. Every evening, we have two time trials to look forward to and many points to win.

"Towards the end of the night, we were both excited about the short track and that is a bit of a redemption for us. After all, we took our share of wins tonight."

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