Peter Sagan to make your mind up on 2021 Tour de France and Olympics participation following Classics

The foreseeable future is unwritten. Peter Sagan should to have been readying himself to begin his year in Argentina later this month at the Vuelta a San Juan, but in its place he faces a succession of instruction camps just before creating his 2021 debut at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne on the remaining weekend of February.

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Workforce Bora rider Slovakias Peter Sagan R rides during the 4th phase of the Giro dItalia 2020 biking race a 140kilometer route concerning Catania and Villafranca Tirrena Sicily on October 6 2020 Photo by Luca Bettini AFP Photo by LUCA BETTINIAFP by means of Getty Visuals

On Saturday, Bora-Hansgrohe directeur sportif Jan Valach recommended that the Slovakian was set to journey the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, Tokyo Olympic Game titles and Environment Championships in a packed 2021 programme, but Sagan advised reporters on Sunday that no decision has been taken about his schedule beyond his regular rendezvous with the Classics.

“We’ll have to see what the agenda will be,” Sagan mentioned in a video clip conference from the Bora-Hansgrohe teaching camp on Lake Garda.

“For now, I have a routine up to the Classics. Right after that, we have to see what I’m likely to do. We have to make a decision, simply because it’s a incredibly critical calendar year with the Olympic Video games and a Earth Championships [in Flanders] that could be fantastic.”

Sagan missed the rescheduled cobbled Classics final Autumn, preferring alternatively to incorporate the Tour with a Giro debut that experienced been prepared prolonged before the coronavirus pandemic upended the calendar. He will return to the cobbles in March and April, but with the pandemic presently forcing revisions to the 2021 calendar, he insisted that it was premature to define a racing programme for the summertime.

“It’s not confident. Like I claimed, just after the Classics, we’ll see what is heading to transpire. Now a whole lot of races are cancelled. We will see how we are heading to regulate this calendar year. I feel we however want some time to program every little thing,” explained Sagan, while he recommended that he would choose for the Tour de France above the Tokyo Olympics need to quarantine specifications compel him to decide on amongst the two races.

“If we have to make a decision now, for certain I’m likely for the green jersey yet again. But no person is familiar with what is heading to occur. We could possibly have to be in Japan two weeks before, but with a vaccination there could be different policies, we continue to really do not know. We will see what’s likely to transpire in the following five months.”

Earlier on Sunday, Sagan’s teammate Emanuel Buchmann confirmed that he will goal the Giro d’Italia in 2021, although it has prolonged been recommended that Bora-Hansgrohe would hand a Tour debut to sprinter Pascal Ackermann this year. Sagan neatly facet-stepped a query about regardless of whether his and Ackermann’s ambitions could co-exist in July. 

“The Tour is still much absent, you know, and later on I will see what is likely to be my plan,” he said.

“I consider also for Pascal, we will see what is heading to be his schedule. We will see later on. Until finally now, we are ready for the racing, but we are in a instant and a problem yet again wherever some races are cancelled. We will see what is likely to happen upcoming month.”

But if the Tour goes ahead as prepared? 

“I won’t solution this concern, and you know why,” Sagan grinned. “If doesn’t exist.”

Opening Weekend

In the listed here and now, Sagan is in Peschiera del Garda for a coaching camp with his Bora-Hansgrohe squad right until January 17, and he will travel onwards for an additional camp in Gran Canaria prior to transferring to altitude in Sierra Nevada in February.

“Immediately after it need to be Nieuwsblad and Kuurne,” Sagan mentioned. “If it is going to materialize, no one appreciates. But that’s the plan.”

By the time Sagan fleshes out the remainder of his racing programme in April, his foreseeable future outside of 2021 may well also be determined. He is in the remaining year of his agreement with Bora-Hansgrohe, but it remains to be observed if he will continue to be with the German squad or shift elsewhere.

“I believe it is superior to check with this dilemma to Ralph Denk or my agent Giovanni Lombardi, not to me,” said Sagan. “I am incredibly satisfied in this crew. I’m being an additional year and then we will see what’s going to come about.”

Sagan’s arrival at Bora in 2017 served to warranty the squad’s passage to the WorldTour, but Denk’s crew has turn out to be a lot less dependent on the a few-time environment winner in the decades because, especially provided the robust cadre of German riders on the roster, led by Buchmann, Ackermann and Max Schachmann.

“Which is superior. The extra powerful fellas, the far better the team is,” mentioned Sagan, who smiled when asked if his job had adjusted in excess of the yrs. “No, I’m nevertheless right here.”