After finishing the recent Tour de San Luis, world champion Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) travelled to Brazil where he previewed the Rio Olympics road race course on Tuesday.
Sagan, who also celebrated his birthday, did several laps of the hilly course with Tinkoff teammates Maciej Bodnar, Pawel Poljanski and guests from bike sponsor Specialized. He has so far played down his chances of winning Olympic gold, aware that the course may better suit the Grand Tour climbers and hilly classics riders like Alejandro Valverde of Spain. If Sagan does ride, he will be Slovakia’s sole participant after the UCI confirmed the athlete quotes for the road race and time trial.
"2016 is not only about the Olympic Games for me because I have three parts of the season: The Classics, the Tour de France and if I'm good I will see about Rio, and then the World Championships," he explained recently.
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Sagan finished second on stage 1 the Tour de San Luis and was fourth on the final stage on Sunday, testing his sprinting skills against likes of Elia Viviani and young Italian Jakub Mareczko. Despite joking about yet another second place via Twitter, Sagan was satisfied with his race.
"We would have liked to end with a win but I'm afraid that was not possible. Anyway the final outcome of this Tour de San Luis is good. I am satisfied with how the week went in view of the upcoming big goals of the season," he said.
On returning to Europe, Sagan will reportedly undertake a stint of altitude training and not compete again before Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne on February 27 and 28 - his first appearance at Belgium’s Opening Weekend since his debut season in 2010.
— Tinkoff (@tinkoff_team) January 26, 2016
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