the slovak cyclist Peter Sagan, one of the great stars of recent years, has announced by surprise that he will retire from professional road cycling at the end of the year. The intention of the broker, that the Thursday turned 33 years oldis to dedicate 2024 to exclusively preparing the mountain bike race of the Paris Olympics.
The truth is Saganthree times world champion as the main attraction in his record, had been away from his best form in recent seasons and without so much facility to prevail in arrivals at the sprint and also in classics and other one-day races. Sagan has announced his intention to retire in a Eurosport interview with Laura Messenger from the Vuelta a San Luis, in Argentina, where he is participating.
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It has an extraordinary list of victories in all the main races on the world calendar. SaganIn addition, it has been imposed seven times in the classification of the green jumper of the Tour, five of them in a row, and has triumphs in the three big ones apart from having also prevailed in the Paris-Roubaix and the Tower of Flanders. However, last year he only scored two victories, one in the Tour of Switzerland and the other by winning the Slovak road championship.
For some years he has shown his interest in dedicating himself to mountain biking. In fact, he already signed up for the Olympic race in the Rio Games. He currently runs for the French outfit TotalEnergies. His best years as a runner were spent in the Liquigas, Tinkoff and Bora. At the Tinkoff he coincided with Alberto counter with a perfect relationship between the two despite being two consistent leaders with different objectives.
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