The prince dressed in yellow stepped out of the dimly-lit room and into the light. Below him, a sea of people, a wall of noise.
Every great fairytale needs to have a fitting ending, and this could certainly be considered one. On Wednesday things became very real as Jonas Vingegaard returned to the very place where it all started exactly four weeks ago. He came home to a jubilant and ecstatic Copenhagen crowd after his tour de force at the Tour de France.
Denmark is a small country; it doesn’t often host big sporting events. Until a few years ago, it didn’t win a lot of bike races, either. Now, the very same year the Tour starts in Denmark, there is a first Danish champion since the controversial victory of Bjarne Riis in 1996.
Unlike Riis, Vingegaard would step out onto the balcony of Copenhagen’s City Hall. This is a place very few people will ever set foot. Balcony celebrations…
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