Having represented Ireland at the Youth Olympics when he was a schoolboy, the career of the Wicklow born and bred Chris Juul Jensen is taking a leap forward. He rides the Tour de France for the first time for Orica-GreenEdge and the Olympics with Denmark. Above, winning the Tour of Denmark last year.
Having represented Ireland at the Youth Olympics before he declared for his family’s home country of Denmark, Chris Juul Jensen has been selected by the Danes for the Rio Olympics.
He is one of three riders named in the road team, with Jakob Fuglsang and Chris Anker Sørensen also picked.
And the affable Orica-GreenEdge rider has also been selected by the Australian WorldTour team to ride the Tour de France which gets underway this week.
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It will be Juul Jensen’s first rider in the Tour, though he is no stranger to Grand Tours having ridden the Giro last year and in 2014 when he was with Tinkoff.
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Juul Jensen is regarded as an old school rider for the hardest races and toughest conditions and his writing about his love for cycling’s history and traditions in Rouleur has endeared him to fans all over the world.
Orica-GreenEdge said the 26-year-old Wicklow born and bred rider would be the heart of the team’s engine room on the Tour along with another really strong team member Luke Durbridge.
“The two strong men will shoulder the huge workload required to give the team opportunities for victory throughout the race and also give the team options to roll the dice in the breaks,” it said of Juul Jensen and Durbridge.
Juul Jensen’s parents are Danes who settled in Co Wicklow, with Chris starting out as a member of Sorrento CC.
However, having shown promise as a youngster and ridden the Youth Olympics with Ireland, he relocated to Denmark during secondary school when the offer of a place at special school for promising young athletes came available.
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