Three-time highway world champion Peter Sagan is about to endure a process on his coronary heart in the present day after struggling a tachycardic episode.
La Gazzetta dello Sport studies that the Slovakian had difficulties with an unusually excessive coronary heart charge after the Chelva mountain bike race close to Valencia final weekend. His coronary heart charge monitor repeatedly recorded readings of over 200 bpm.
After retiring from a fifteen-year highway profession on the finish of final season, Sagan is racing his first full season on the mountain bike, along with his final purpose being the Olympic Games in Paris in the summertime.
It’s reported that the 34-year-old underwent a collection of additional checks early this week which confirmed episodes of irregular tachycardia throughout high-intensity train.
Sagan’s process will happen in Ancona, Italy. This consists of an ablation, the place an space of the center is usually handled with freezing or warmth to create scar tissue which goals to right an arrhythmia. It ought to enable Sagan to get again to coaching within the close to future.
Sagan now races on the mountain bike for the Specialized Factory Racing Team and has already competed in two races this season – final weekend in Chelva and likewise on the inaugural HERO Abu Dhabi.
He was anticipated to compete in Banyoles this weekend, earlier than happening to race the Marseille France Cup after which the primary of the UCI World Cup races in Brazil in April. It’s reported that Sagan will now skip Banyoles however hopes to be again on his bike in time to race in France.
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To qualify for the Olympic Games in Paris, Sagan might want to safe a big quantity of UCI factors. Only the highest 19 nations qualify for a spot and Slovakia at the moment sit in thirty eighth, greater than a thousand factors down on geographical neighbours and present Nineteenth-placed Czechia. Sagan has till May twenty sixth to bridge that hole.
Sagan competed within the cross-country mountain bike competitors on the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, though an early puncture took him out of medal competition. He missed the Tokyo Olympic Games as a consequence of damage. He was a junior world champion on the mountain bike in 2008.
Although his sporting roots are on the mountain bike, Sagan instructed Cyclingnews earlier than his final highway race on the Tour de Vendée final 12 months that he feels he could have lots to study.
“14 or 15 years in the past, it was a completely totally different sport. The races had been lots longer, additionally in case you don’t do these races for 14 or 15 years you lose lots,” he mentioned. “For me, it will be like altering from Formula 1 driving to rallying.”
As a part of his coaching for the mountain bike. Sagan can be set to race at continental stage on the highway this season for the Slovakian Pierre Baguette Cycling squad, the place his brother, Juraj, is a Sports Director.
“I’m not unhappy I’m ending on the highway. I’m more than pleased to proceed with mountain bike and see if I’m able to do one thing or not,” he mentioned.