Peter Sagan celebrated a successful week of racing at the Tour Down Under before returning to Europe, convinced that he is on track for yet another successful season.
Sagan failed to win a stage or get the better of Caleb Ewan (Orica-Scott) in the sprint finishes during the Tour Down Under but his three second places indicated he has done the hard miles and laid the foundations for 2017 during the winter.
On his return to Europe, Sagan will continue to train for the 2017 season, perhaps joining his Bora-hansgrohe teammates at a training camp in Mallorca. He will only race again at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on February 25, before heading to Italy to race and build-up for Milan-San Remo and the cobbled Classics –the biggest goals of his 2017 season.
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Sagan worked for his new Bora-Hansgrohe teammate Sam Bennett in the first stage sprint at the Tour Down Under and helped Jay McCarthy on the hilltop finish in Paracombe and on the final stage to ensure the Australian finished third overall. When he realised he had the speed to take on Ewan and beat the other sprinters, he tried every possible tactics to land a stage victory but did not have the pure speed of the Orica-Scott sprinter.
“I feel very good. I am not at the top but I am taking back my condition slowly but for sure I will be good later,” Sagan said after the final stage in downtown Adelaide.
“Now I turn back in Europe and going to make a team camp. The next races will be in Belgium, what’s the name? It’s Brussels and Het Volk. They change the name…. then its Strade Bianche and Tirreno-Adriatico.”
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