BALLERUP, denmark (Ekstra Bladet): the Finale on Tuesday, can’t be anything other than a horror film.
In any case is the 2019 edition of the copenhagen seksdagesløb after five days crazy close.
Four teams battle namely still a victory at the Ballerup Super Arena, on Monday, featured both terrific cycling and heavy crash.
The popular Pair no. 7, Michael Mørkøv and his 18-year-old partner, Oliver Wulff Frederiksen, was in the lead in Monday’s handicap-hunting, over 75 km – now has been given the name ‘Gert Frank Mindeløb’ after the recently deceased six-day legend.
The status they held firm in following the hunt, where there drama in the top of the standings – but, unfortunately, in the sad way.
Jesper Mørkøv had a puncture and crashed in one of the turns, and the Dutch Wim Stroetinga had to descend soon after, when a switch failed. None of them could continue, and then composed a new pair of their companions, Yoeri Havik and Christian Grassmann.
Jesper Mørkøv was at the forefront, when he crashed and could not continue. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
The new couple turned out to be quite durable, as they managed to take hold in the topstriden together with Mørkøv and Wulff, the belgian pair Kenny De Ketele and Moreno De Pauw, as well as Marc Hester, running together with the German Theo Reinhardt.
The four teams are up to speed with a Few no. 7 a good bit ahead on points. Unfortunately for them, they have passed the 200 points and thus scored a bonus round. It gets the other three couples without a doubt early Tuesday, when the six-day-final takes place.
But Michael Mørkøv has a plan.
– There are many points to run on, so with a little luck we can reach 300 and get a bonus round. In any case it is what we are going after, says the Danish Quick-Step rider.
The many crash – among other things also with his younger brother – also came to mean that the tactic for the day on Monday went out of the window.
It was a weird game, where, instead of a long hunt came to run two short. I had expected that Jesper and Grassmann and Havik and Stroetinga would attack in the day. We could then lukrere a little. But it did not happen, ” says Mørkøv, who had to sink an additional time, when he saw that it was his brother that was smoked down.
– We’ve run a lot together, and there has never happened anything. Fortunately, I could see that he was not injured, but of course, I was affected by it when I saw him the first time, says Mørkøv.
The Dutch brothers, Raymond and Michel Kreder won the handicapjagten.
the Top-the dispute after five days
1. Few no. 7 – Michael Mørkøv and Oliver Wulff Frederiksen – 247 points
2. Few no. 16 – Kenny De Ketele and Moreno De Pauw – 186 points
3. Few no. 1 – Yoeri Havik and Christian Grassmann – 184 points
4. Few no. 9 – Marc Hester and Theo Reinhardt – 177 points
