Mattias Skjelmose - Blog Posts
They went like *awkwardly puts down the beer*
I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING WHAT IS GOING ON HERE
Amstel Gold Race
20 April 2025
Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Treck)
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step)
Seeing a pro be so in disbelief over having won such a big race really reminds you that they too used to be kids dreaming of making it one day, and mattias fucking did! he beat THE world champion and olympic champion !
I cannot wait to see how his season turns out the rest of the year.
Mattias Skjelmose, Amstel Gold Race 2025
Quarter-Finals, Match Three: Matej Mohorič v. Mattias Skjelmose
Matej Mohorič Propaganda
Mattias Skjelmose Propaganda (submitted by poll-runner)
Personal: He’s a super lovely guy with an adorable smile, looks like an elf, likes a cheeky bit of gossip and has no filter, great friendship with Mads Pedersen.
One time he crashed and fell 15m down a ravine, climbed back up himself and yelled “I’m fine, just give me a new bike” which is just. Insane to me
Professional: He’s had a really interesting journey as a rider. He was on top of the world as a junior, rivalling Remco Evenepoel, but was a total dick. Then he got banned for doping because he took some contaminated dietary supplements. Came back a year later and then signed to Trek-Segafredo (much to the irritation of Mads Pedersen, who knocked on Mattias’ hotel room door and asked him why he should believe he had changed, but found himself pleasantly surprised by the type of guy Mattias now was) and now he’s thirteenth on the individual UCI ranking. Rouleur did a great article on him:
Round Two, Match Six: Simon Geschke v. Mattias Skjelmose
Simon Geschke Propaganda
Personal: Simon Geschke is an old man with a magnificent beard, born in East-Berlin (a soft pisces with a fiery aries moon, we stan a king) and despite living in the south of Germany for a while now he never lost his perfect accent and his dry pragmatic way of looking at the world. He is vegan and has a french bulldog (which...okay...), and his favorite hobby is fiddling with his Schwalbe, a vintage GDR scooter.
Professional: The son of a track cycling world champion probably learned to bike before he learned to walk. Now he rides for Cofidis as a mountain specialist and helper for Guillaume Martin. Biggest moment was gaining the polka dot jersey in the 2022 Tour de France. He held it for nine days and did a special and adorable video for KIKA, the kid's channel, where he counted all the dots on the jersey for the kids. There are 75 dots. Here is the video:
Mattias Skjelmose Propaganda (provided by poll-runner)
Personal: He’s a super lovely guy with an adorable smile, looks like an elf, likes a cheeky bit of gossip and has no filter, great friends with Mads Pedersen.
One time he crashed and fell 15m down a ravine, climbed back up himself and yelled “I’m fine, just give me a new bike” which is just. Insane to me
Professional: He’s had a really interesting journey as a rider. He was on top of the world as a junior, rivalling Remco Evenepoel, but was a total dick. Then he got banned for doping because he took some contaminated dietary supplements. Came back a year later and then signed to Trek-Segafredo (much to the irritation of Mads Pedersen, who knocked on Mattias’ hotel room door and asked him why he should believe he had changed, but found himself pleasantly surprised by the type of guy Mattias now was) and now he’s thirteenth on the individual UCI ranking. Rouleur did a great article on him:
Round One, Match Twelve: Mattias Skjelmose v. João Almeida
Mattias Skjelmose Propaganda
No propaganda submitted.
João Almeida Propaganda
No propaganda submitted.
remco you are so stupid, but hey at least we get an interesting winner
Mikkel Bjerg, Mads Pedersen, Jonas Vingegaard, Andreas Kron, Christopher Juul-Jensen & Mikkel Honoré of Denmark during the 109th Tour de France 2022, Stage 21 a 115,6km stage from Paris La Défense to Paris (Champs-Élysées) on July 24, 2022 in Paris, France. (Photos by Marco Bertorello/Getty Images)
jonas has revealed in an interview that he now has a house in switzerland along with keeping his house in denmark and apparently they also have a place in france. most importantly he has said that living in switzerland recently has meant they do not have to travel as much as jonas can train in the alps and the vingegaard family has really been enjoying that.
mads pedersen also lives in switzerland and was the one who convinced jonas to move there, skjelmose is also going to be moving to switzerland soon, so they are establishing their own little danish colony there.
if you want to be a dog, first you must learn to wait
How To Be a Dog, Andrew Kane // Mattias Skjelmose 3rd in Denmark but wanted more, racing.trekbikes.com // unknown // Skjelmose after the 1st stage of the 2023 Tour de France, Dan King // unknown // Skjelmose, Stephane Mahe // @/lesbyers // Skjelmose during the 2021 UAE Tour // cyclinguptodate.com // ‘Leash’ on Wikipedia // The Angriest Dog in the World, David Lynch // Skjelmose crashes in Stage 5 of the 2023 Tour de France // Skjelmose crashes in Stage 2 of the 2022 Volta a Catalunya // Skjelmose after the 10th stage of the 2023 Tour de France, Dan King
Don't forget how badly Skjelly crashed in ParisNice only a month ago. And last year he got burned by Pogi but now he managed to win against Pogi the sun himself. That's cycling.
Danish shenanigans at the finish line of Tour de France 2023.
