Peter Sagan announces end of career
DPA
· 27.01.2023
The 33-year-old announced on the sidelines of the Vuelta a San Juan in Argentina that he would be limiting himself to mountain biking in the coming year and that his professional cycling career would come to an end at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Already 2016 at the Olympic Games in Rio, Sagan was also rode the mountain bike race. The 2008 Junior MTB World Champion ended up in 35th place with two flat tyres.
Sagan back on the mountain bike for the 2024 Olympics
"I always wanted to stop mountain biking, because that's how it all began. It's important for me to spend time with my son Marlon and to stop seeing life from the perspective of a cyclist. It was never my dream to still be riding at 40 or 50," Sagan said in a video.
2023 Sagan's last season in the professional peloton
The Slovakian began his career in 2011 and has racked up 121 victories to date. From 2015 to 2017, he won the world champion's rainbow jersey three times in a row and also celebrated victories at the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.
From 2017 to 2021, Sagan was with the German World Tour Team Bora-Hansgrohe under contract. Sagan has been riding for the French team since 2022. TotalEnergies professional teamwhich, like his former German racing team, is equipped with Specialized bikes. He won the Tour de France green jersey seven times, more than anyone else. He also won twelve stages of the world's most important stage race.
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