Peter Sagan is preparing to make his surprise return to road racing at the Tour ✅de Hongrie on Wednesday with the Slovakian ꦏteam Pierre Baguette.
The three-time world champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:ended his road ca🌟reer with TotalEnergies last year and turned his focus to racing mountain bikes to try to qualify for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris Olympics. However, his attempts꧋ were h๊alted when he experienced abnormal heart rhythms and had to undergo surgery in February.
Sagan came back quickly after the first procedure but then relapsed and had a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:second surgery in March, and lost a lot of fitness during the month-long rec♏overy, he said.
"✨Now I'm already three weeks on the bike and back in training," Sagan said last week in a video on
At the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Hongrie, he said, "My expectation is to have some race kilometres, and for sure if I finish the Tour of Hungary it will 🌟put me at another level. I༒ have no big ideas to do something because I know it's very hard - there are some riders who are training from October, November, and December and did big preparation before this race, and I'm out of this because of the heart surgery and recovery. I lost a lot of preparation.
"After that, I'll see how I feel - if my problem is solved or it's go෴ing to come back. Nobody knows. I have no expectations. The next plan I'm going to do I'll set after To🔥ur of Hungary."
Sagan is reuniting with his brother, former pro Juraj, and former Bora-Hansgrohe director Ján Valach in the Pierre Baguette te🦩am.
"I'm very happy to be part of this team and to help the young guys," Sagan said. "I'm from Slovakia and now this is the biggest team in Slovakia. My brother is working in the team and another DS in the team Ján Valach, we did like ❀10 years together in&nbs꧃p;road cycling WorldTour.
"I'm very happy to be in this𝓀 environment and maybe give some experience I had in my career to the young guys and see how they grow. Maybe to [help] some rider from this team make it in cycling."
The Tour de Hongrie begins on Wedn♏esday with a pan-flat stage fr꧅om Karcag to Hajdúszoboszló.
"I know that the first two stages are really flat for the sprinters and then the third stage has some climbs. Afಞter that, there are some stages up and down. There are many for the fast riders. I can expect some competition bec𝔉ause a lot of WorldTour riders are coming. I'm also happy to see some of my friends from the old years," Sagan said.
He'll be reunited on the start line by formeꦛr sprint rivals Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan), Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco AlUla), Sam Welsford (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Elia Viviani (Ineos Grenadiers).
