If nothing unexpected happens, in mid-September, Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Chris Froome (Israel Start-Up Nation) will also perform at the stage cycling races Around Slovakia.
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Chris Froome (in yellow jersey) and Peter Sagan (in green) at the Tour de France 2016.
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Brit Froome has won the Tour de France four times in the past, twice won the Spanish Vuelta and once the Italian Giro.
The organizers of the event informed about it on Wednesday at a press conference in Bratislava.
The 65th year of the Around Slovakia race will take place from 15 to 19 September, so the event under the Tatras will culminate on the day of the start of the World Road Cycling Championships in Belgium.
VIDEO: President of the Slovak Cycling Association and director of races Around Slovakia Peter Privara about the organization of the event.
“Bora-hansgrohe keeps his promises. As a result, the most successful road cyclist in history, Peter Sagan, will start Around Slovakia.
Along with him, the Bora-hansgrohe team also nominated other Slovaks, Juraj Sagan and Erik Baška, proven co-drivers of the Pole Maciej Bodnar and Italian Daniel Oss, who, together with Sagan, leave Bora for Total Energies after the end of the season.
The rest of the team will be joined by the Danish Frederik Wandahl and the Austrian Patrick Gamper, “said Ľudovít Lučanič, the sports director of the race, at a press conference.
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The three-time world champion and seven-time winner of the scoring competition at the Tour de France, Peter Sagan, will start on Slovak roads in preparation for the upcoming World Championships in Belgium.
The peloton will have the start number 11. The unit is reserved for last year’s champion Jannick Steimle (Deceuninck – Quick-Step).
The official start list will be published on August 25, when the deadline for the entire lists is set.
Seven teams of the highest category of the World Tour and six procontinental teams promised to participate.
On Wednesday, September 15, the program includes a prologue in the center of Košice, a day later a 158.4 km long stage with a start and finish also in Košice.
The second stage on Friday 17 September will lead from Spišské Podhradie to Dolný Kubín, the third from Dolný Kubín to Považská Bystrica and the race will culminate on Sunday 19 September on the Trenčianske Teplice – Trnava line.
Over the course of five days, cyclists will cover a total of 692 kilometers and fight for twelve speed and fifteen mountaineering bonuses.
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In addition to the rarest yellow jersey, the competitors will share three other jerseys. Green in the scoring competition, white-red dotted for the best mountaineer and white in the competition for cyclists under 23. There are 15 mountaineering and 12 speed bonuses waiting for cyclists.
“I tried to ‘tailor’ the whole year to Petr Sagan. We know its advantages. That is also why in the stage that passes through the High Tatras, only one mountain premium of the 1st category is announced, “said the author of the track Stanislav Holec.
Another big name in the starting list should be the seventh man of this year’s Tour de France Kazakh Alexei Lucenko (Astana).
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“The great climber is the second man of last year’s Gira Jai Hindley from the DSM team.
BikeExchange will send a classic line-up like Hepburn or Juul-Jensen. Casper Pedersen from DSM will also be suitable for our terrains.
Jannik Steimle from Quick-Step would certainly want to defend last year’s triumph and he should come even though he is on the Vuelte. Well-known names will also come with three Slovaks in the Bora team – classic helpers Oss and Bodnar, “reports www.cycling-info.sk.
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Sam Bennett and Davide Cimolai will not come to Slovakia, but Giacomo Nizzolo, Álvaro Hodeg or Cees Bol should compete with Peter Sagan.
Thirty-one-year-old Sagan signed a two-year contract with the French team TotalEnergies in early August. He will finish the current season in Bora-hansgrohe, he will join the new team after this year.
His new employer promises to help him move from the UCI ProTour category to the next level.
If the pandemic situation allows it and the 36-year-old Froome will start on Slovak roads, he will be the first TdF champion around Slovakia.
International races Around Slovakia will be broadcast live on Eurosport. The Government of the Slovak Republic approved a subsidy of 350,000 euros, the total budget is 700,000 euros.
Slovakia Travel also plays a significant role in negotiations and implementation.
Live broadcasts on Eurosport 1 should be hourly, on Eurosport 2 they will be broadcast in the evening. Dvojka also has a live broadcast in its program.
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Peter Sagan, season
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65th year Around Slovakia
Program – Wednesday 15 September: prologue (Košice, Hlavné nám. 1.5 km), Thursday 16 September: 1st stage (Košice – Košice, 151.5 km), Friday 17 September: 2nd stage ( Spišské Podhradie – Dolný Kubín 190.4 km), Saturday, 18 September: 3rd stage (Dolný Kubín – Považská Bystrica 194.2 km), Sunday 19 September: 4th stage (Trenčianske Teplice – Trnava, 159 km).
List of teams – UCI World Tour (7): Bora-hansgrohe (Nem.), Deceuninck – Quick-Step (Belg.), Team DSM (Nem.), Astana Premier Tech (Kaz.), Teram BikeExchange (Aus.), Qhubeka – Assos (JAR), Israel Star Up Nation (Izr.).
UCI For Teams (6): Alpecin – Fenix (Hol.), Bingoal Wallone – Bruxelles (Belg.), Novo Nordisk (USA), Uno-X (Nór.), Vini Zabu – KTM (Tal.), Gazprom Rusvelo (Rus.).
Continental teams (8): Dukla Banská Bystrica, Cycling Academy Trenčín, Elkov – Kasper (CZE), Mazowsze Serce Polski (POL), Adria Mobil (Slovenia), Friuli ASD (ITA), Maloja Pushnikrtss (DEU), Topforex ATT Investments (CZE) .
Representation (1): Slovakia.
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