Peter Sagan will compete within the final street race of his profession, for the second time, on residence roads at right this moment’s remaining stage on the Tour of Slovakia, after making a brief return with the Pierre Baguette workforce in 2024.
The workforce, who Sagan’s brother Juraj is a DS for, confirmed that the three-time World Champion could be driving his remaining race on the street on stage 5 after Sagan already introduced this was to be his final dance earlier within the week.
“This shall be my final official street race and I do not assume there might be a greater place to shut this chapter of my profession apart from my residence nation, Slovakia,” stated Sagan in an Instagram put up.
“I stay up for an thrilling race with my teammates of Pierre Baguette Biking, a squad of promising Slovak and Czech younger riders.
“Above all, I can not wait to fulfill the nice Slovak followers as soon as once more and thank them for his or her assist all these years, for the reason that begin of my profession. I am certain we may have an excellent week by Slovakia.”
“Peter Sagan will journey right this moment his final ever street race at Tour of Slovakia. Thanks for the whole lot Peter,” learn a tweet from Pierre Baguette Biking, earlier than they listed off Sagan’s high accolades.
These included three world titles, 12 Tour de France levels, a file seven Tour inexperienced jerseys, Paris-Roubaix, the Tour of Flanders and 121 professional wins.
Sagan rode what was because of be his final skilled street race on the Tour de Vendée with TotalEnergies on the finish of 2023 and was meant to retire from the street. However even with a brand new deal with mountain biking, Sagan returned to the self-discipline he dominated for a lot of the 2010s on the Tour de Hongrie.
He’s gifted his loyal followers 10 extra days to see him on the street in 2024 after present process a number of coronary heart surgical procedures this season. Medical doctors implanted a monitor to trace any irregular cardiac rhythms after having an irregular tachycardic episode throughout a Spanish MTB race.
His MTB marketing campaign was all in effort to try to make it to the Paris Olympic Video games however Sagan’s goals of competing for gold ended when Slovakia didn’t climb excessive sufficient within the UCI rankings earlier than the top of the qualification interval in Could.
With the Olympic dream over and no particular invite coming from the IOC, Cyclingnews understands that that is prone to be one among Sagan’s remaining aggressive races of any sort.
