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Peter Sagan will be headed to Canada in 2017 world championships build-up

After expulsion from the 2017 Tour de France, the Slovak super star won't be riding the Vuelta

Peter Sagan
July 13, 2017
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Peter Sagan

L’Équipe is reporting that despite some speculation that Peter Sagan would ride the 2017 Vuelta a España, the Slovak will stick to the program that proved successful in 2016 riding the BinckBank Tour (formally the Eneco Tour) in the Netherlands in August, and the Grands Prix Cycliste de Quebec and Montreal in September.

The Bora-Hansgrohe star won his second consecutive world championship title in Doha, Qatar in 2016 after using the same program though the BinkBank Tour moves from a September slot to August for 2017. In 2016, Sagan won the points classification and two stages at the Dutch race after securing three stage wins at the Tour de France and his fifth consecutive green jersey.

Sagan’s return to the GP Quebec and Montreal is welcome as the Slovak has found success at both races during his career. In 2016 he won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec and in 2013 he won the race in Montreal.

Sagan was disqualified from the 2017 Tour de France in a controversial decision by the UCI for putting out his elbow which according to the official decision caused Mark Cavendish to crash out of the race on Stage 4. The decision came two hours after the stage finished in Vittel and was announced in a press conference by UCI head commissaire Philippe Marien. Sagan was attempting to win his sixth green jersey and build on his eight Tour de France stage wins since making his debut at the French Grand Tour in 2012. He won Stage 3 of this years race ahead of Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb).

While taking a break from racing after his expulsion, which his team protested unsuccessfully, he also promoted the upcoming season of the Netflix series Stranger Things on his social media channel in his unique style.

According to L’Équipe, his Bora-Hansgrohe squad wanted Sagan to race the Vuelta but as defending the rainbow jersey at the 2017 road cycling world championships in Bergen, Norway is his main late season focus, he wanted to keep the lighter race calendar instead of tackling the grueling three-week Spanish Grand Tour.