BAYONNE, BRATISLAVA. The situation in the sprint cycling race changes not from minute to minute, but literally from second to second.
Peter Sagan’s fans noticed when they saw their favorite getting ahead in the 3rd stage of the Tour de France at the finish line 1.5 kilometers before the finish line.
Although he wasn’t even in the camera’s frame a few seconds before, he was suddenly seemingly in a prime position. Why seemingly? It was too soon, he quickly realized.
Although he was behind the rear wheel of Biniam Girmay, he had only one teammate in front of him, who did not have enough energy to accelerate.
Sagan thus reached the train of the Alpecin-Deceuninck team, even urging Mathieu van der Poel with a gesture to go with Jasper Philipsen in front of him.
That finally happened, but the problem was that two racers from the Bora-Hansgrohe team also got through it when passing through the right-hand corner. They slowed him down significantly, and then the other opponents closed Sagan willy-nilly.
VIDEO: Clip from the 3rd stage of the Tour de France 2023
Sagan was both joking and comparing
About 13 seconds passed from the moment Sagan lost Philipsen’s rear wheel and got into a practically unsolvable position.
The three-time world champion finally finished in 19th place. “Well, I guess my biological clock is ticking,” joked Sagan in an interview with RTVS.
As if he was alluding to the fact that, at the age of 33, he is no longer good enough for younger opponents. The truth is that stage sprints today are different than in the past.
2023-07-03 20:21:01
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