Peter Sagan Getting in the Miles

After having the Covid virus and losing time on the bike, riding stage races to get in the race miles is key for Peter Sagan as he looks ahead to a big year with the aim to get back to winning

Peter Sagan Getting in the Miles

After having the Covid virus and losing time on the bike, riding stage races to get in the race miles is key for Peter Sagan as he looks ahead to a big year with the aim to get back to winning

Photo: Tirreno-Adriatico

Peter Sagan and his choosing a stage race over one day classics (like Gent Wevelgem)

“I haven’t raced for fourteen days because of my corona infection, so I just miss the miles in my legs,” says Sagan. The former triple World Champion rode Tirreno-Adriatico to start to get those miles in the legs before he races Milan-San Remo.

“I have not yet won that race, even when I was in top form. But anything can happen, that’s the beauty of Milan-San Remo. Only I will clearly not be the favorite”, Sagan tells Bici.news.

On what he saw in Tirreno-Adriatico, Sagan explains “Pogačar is very strong and I have to be honest that Van der Poel also impresses me. He is not someone who talks a lot in the peloton, but I have a better relationship with him than with Van Aert”, said Sagan, who had to struggle with the Belgian in the bunch sprint to Poitiers in the last Tour.

After the classics: Giro and Tour
“I will return to the Flemish races in the spring after I missed those events last year. However, I have chosen to ride the Volta a Catalunya, which means that I will not be in the E3 Classic and Gent-Wevelgem. But in the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix I hope to be in better shape than now”, he explains.

Sagan is also already thinking about Grand Tours. “If I don’t have any health problems and the corona crisis doesn’t stop the race, then the Giro d’Italia is my first goal. Last year I had my only victory in the season, so I can’t forget that”, he says.

“So I will return to the Giro and then I will also go to the Tour, although there are still a few question marks about that”.

That’s because the Olympic Games are also on the program of the former three-time world champion. “What is certain is that I want to go to Tokyo, because I have not ridden the national championship in two years and I think Slovakia deserves me to represent them. We still have to decide whether I will finish the Tour and then fly to Japan, or whether I will go that way sooner, ”said Sagan.

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