Former bicycle owner and TV persona Dag Erik Pedersen died on Monday after being unwell.
Former biking star and TV 2 skilled Dag Otto Lauritzen is shaken by the information.
– I am in shock. To start with, I consider the household and people closest to me who’re having the toughest time. Dag Erik was very pleased and impressed with so many over time, says Lauritzen.
WC IN AUSTRIA: From left: Skilled cyclists Jaanus Kuum, Dag Otto Lauritzen and Dag Erik Pedersen in 1987. Photograph: Sigurdsøn, Bjørn
Lauritzen and Pedersen have recognized one another for a few years.
– We’ve got adopted one another on bikes since we met on the bike for the primary time in 1979/80. Then on TV, as audio system and advocates for on a regular basis well being and wellness, Lauritzen says and provides:
– I am unable to settle for that he’s not with us.
Mentor
– It is a shock. Approach too early and simply very unhappy, says TV 2 biking skilled Mads Kaggestad.
Pedersen was certainly one of Norway’s greatest biking figures.
– It means an unbelievable quantity to everybody in Norwegian biking and that is very unhappy information. Dag Erik was top-of-the-line of his technology, says Kaggestad.
The biking skilled says that Pedersen was a sort of mentor to him as a baby within the Ringerike biking membership.
– He was usually within the setting to encourage, train and present us. He was involved concerning the younger individuals and supplied ideas and options, shares Kaggestad.
RINGERIKE: Kaggestad has recognized Pedersen nearly all his life after their time within the Ringerike Biking Membership. Photograph: Erik Edland / TV 2
For sports activities director at Uno-X Mobility and former bicycle owner Kurt Asle Arvesen, Pedersen was an essential particular person.
– Dag Erik performed a central function in my early profession as a result of he had contacts in Italy that he used after I turned world champion within the U23 class. He was my agent and interpreter after I signed my first skilled contract, says Arvesen.
GOOD TOUCH: Dag Erik Pedersen performed a key function in Kurt Asle Arvesen’s earlier profession. Photograph: Fredrik Varfjell
The 2 had been in sporadic contact over time.
– We shared our love for Italy and biking. We regularly took the primary minutes of a phone dialog in Italian, says Arvesen.
– We spoke on the newest ten or twelve days in the past and he instructed me then that he was going to Lake Garda. I lived there for 10 seasons after I was an expert bicycle owner. It is actually unhappy that he is gone.
The staff’s massive star, Alexander Kristoff, represents Pedersen’s essential place in Norwegian biking.
– It is unhappy. He was one of many nice cyclists of the 80s and early Nineteen Nineties, and was Norway’s finest at the moment. In that sense, he had an essential place in Norwegian biking. I did not know him personally, however I noticed him round at bike races and I do know very properly who he’s, he tells TV 2.
Olafsen: – Sadly
Helene Olafsen was a participant in “The Grasp of Masters”, when Pedersen was the presenter.
She sends her ideas to the Pedersen household.
– It’s terribly unhappy. My ideas go first to the household, I take into consideration them loads now. After which I attempt to keep in mind the nice tales: As a result of he’s somebody who gave a lot of himself, and he’s a talented storyteller, says Olafsen to TV 2.
Like Pedersen, Olafsen went from being an athlete to being a presenter after his sports activities profession.
– I referred to as him slightly originally, and he all the time answered the telephone. It was nothing. He all the time took excellent care of me, and I appreciated that, she provides.
PROGRAM MANAGER: Helene Olafsen, right here in reference to the Gullruten. Photograph: Ole Enes Ebbesen / TV 2
Program editor for exterior content material at NRK Petter Wallace used massive phrases concerning the former presenter “Grasp of Masters”.
– It meant an unbelievable quantity to our viewers. Specifically, individuals will most likely keep in mind him for his contribution as a presenter in “Mesternes Mester” – which developed maybe NRK’s hottest collection.
– He did an important job to construct it, over ten years as a presenter, says Wallace to TV 2.
One of many nice ones
Pedersen had a number of victories as an expert bicycle owner.
The profession of Dag Erik Pedersen
Three stage wins within the Giro d’Italia
WC quantity 4 in joint begin in 1981
Tenth general within the 1984 Giro d’Italia
First place in each joint begin and staff pace on the 1992 NM
Wilhelm Inform received the stage race in Switzerland 1981
As a bicycle owner, it’s described as an all-rounder:
– He might climb, strive, do every part. Extraordinarily proficient cyclists, says Kaggestad.
LÆRDAL: In 1992, Dag Erik Pedersen received the 180 km mixed begin through the Nationwide Biking Championships in Lærdal. Photograph: Jon Eeg
He held a lecture about his life
It isn’t greater than a month since he stood on the stage in Larvik and gave a lecture about his personal circumstances.
– He instructed him a narrative to burn to speak about. I’ve heard so many good issues concerning the present. It is so overwhelming, so unhappy, Laurizen says.
TV 2 biking commentator Christian Paasche can also be influential.
– He was one of many pioneers in Norwegian street biking. After Knut Knudsen and Jostein Wilmann, it was Dag Erik and Dag Otto who put Norway on the map. That is an especially tragic message to obtain, says Paasche.