Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) arrived in Belgium on Thursday to kick off his Classics campaign and is keen to use the hills and cobbles that line the routes of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne this weekend to get himself back into the flow of racing.
The world champion has spent a month away from competition, and he was certainly in a laid back mood as he breezed his way through a press conference in Kortrijk on Friday afternoon in his own inimitable style.
“It passes the time faster,” he joked when asked about racing on the cobbles of northern Belgium and France. “On the road you have just pedalling and watching the front – nothing to do.”
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He offered up another off-beat response when discussing his decision to change his season structure and spend time at an altitude camp before dropping into the Belgian cycling season’s Opening Weekend for the first time since his neo-pro year in 2010.
“In life, you have to try things,” he stated with mock grandiosity, with his team staff later insisting that the apparent lack of seriousness does in fact belie a genuine hunger to achieve and excel.
In any case, this weekend might not matter quite as much to Sagan as it does to some others. His only competitive outing so far this year came at the The Tour de San Luis in January and since then he has eschewed the other early-season stage races in favour of a three-week stint in the Sierra Nevada.
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