Peter Sagan will compete within the final highway race of his profession, for the second time, on dwelling roads at as we speak’s last stage on the Tour of Slovakia, after making a brief return with the Pierre Baguette group in 2024.
The group, who Sagan’s brother Juraj is a DS for, confirmed that the three-time World Champion can be using his last race on the highway on stage 5 after Sagan already introduced this was to be his final dance earlier within the week.
“This shall be my final official highway race and I do not assume there could possibly be a greater place to shut this chapter of my profession apart from my dwelling nation, Slovakia,” mentioned Sagan in an Instagram post.
“I look ahead to an thrilling race with my teammates of Pierre Baguette Cycling, a squad of promising Slovak and Czech younger riders.
“Above all, I can not wait to satisfy 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’m certain we may have an amazing week via Slovakia.”
“Peter Sagan will journey as we speak his final ever highway race at Tour of Slovakia. Thank you for every little thing Peter,” read a tweet from Pierre Baguette Cycling, earlier than they listed off Sagan’s high accolades.
These included three world titles, 12 Tour de France phases, a report seven Tour inexperienced jerseys, Paris-Roubaix, the Tour of Flanders and 121 professional wins.
Sagan rode what was because of be his final skilled highway race on the Tour de Vendée with TotalEnergies on the finish of 2023 and was meant to retire from the highway. But even with a brand new give attention to 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 highway in 2024 after present process a number of coronary heart surgical procedures this season. 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 Games however Sagan’s desires of competing for gold ended when Slovakia didn’t climb excessive sufficient within the UCI rankings earlier than the tip of the qualification interval in May.
With the Olympic dream over and no particular invite coming from the IOC, Cyclingnews understands that that is more likely to be one in all Sagan’s last aggressive races of any form.
