Peter Sagan has always been an enigma in cycling. The 25-year-old Slovakian sprinter who can climb, break away, and ride the front of the Classics like a seasoned rouleur did little to clear up any mystery during his national team’s press conference Friday in Richmond.
Sagan eschewed talk of being a favourite and wouldn’t name any other riders he considered major contenders for Sunday’s World Championship road race, telling the assembled journalists at a suburban Holiday Inn conference room that thinking about it is a waste of time.
“It doesn’t matter what I can see or not, because it’s just losing time,” Sagan said. “Every year is different, and every year it’s been – not every year but the last two or three years – it’s been not the favourite riders. I think it’s for nothing thinking about favourites.”
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The highly skilled bike handler who won a rainbow jersey at the junior mountain bike cross-country World Championships in 2008 and a silver medal in the junior cyclo-cross championships that same year, also wouldn’t be drawn out on how the weather will affect the race.
“It rains for everybody, so I don’t know,” he said.
Asked how he thinks the race will play out, if it will come down to a large group sprint, a sprint from a smaller group or a breakaway at the finish, Sagan was equally opaque.
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