It has been known for several days that the best Slovak cyclist Peter Sagan will start his work in the French team TotalEnergies at the Vuelta and San Juan races.
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Currently, it is also certain that at the turn of January and February 2022, there is a very high-quality competition in South America with up to nine teams from the elite WorldTour category.
This is despite the fact that the race belongs to the lower category of the UCI 2.Pro.
“The race, which did not take place at all this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has had a grand presentation with Peter Sagan as a special guest.
The line-up of the individual teams has been confirmed, which is very diverse also because the previously planned Tour Down Under and Around Colombia have been canceled. That’s why several teams have decided to send their competitors to South America, “the website explained cyclingnews.com.
Sagan became one of the faces of the event, whose organizers prepared a specialty for him.
“Yesterday I had a fantastic night that I will never forget.
Not only was I able to take part in an emotional match at the legendary Bombonere, but thanks to my friends from San Juan, I had the enormous privilege of getting a team jersey with the number 10 with my name on it.
I’m almost ready to go to Boca Vuelta and San Juan with you all, “Sagan wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday.
He also added photos from a place that is mainly associated with football giant Diego Maradon. He played for her at the beginning and end of his career with an iconic ten.
The WorldTour menoslov of the Vuelta and San Juan races does not miss the unit of the last seasons Deceuninck Quick-Step, after the new Quick-Step AlphaVinil with the Belgian Remco Evenepoel in the line-up.
They are followed by Trek-Segafredo, Bora-Hansgrohe, Cofidis, Lotto Soudal, Movistar and the Israel Start-Up Nation.
These are teams that have started in Argentina in the recent past. The list of participants from WorldTour is supplemented by Ineos Grenadiers and Astana Qazaqstan as well as teams from the category of procontinental teams Eolo-Kometa, Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli, Bardiani-CSF and the mentioned TotalEnergies.
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Italian sprinter Elia Viviani and elite Ecuadorian mountaineer and Tokyo Olympic champion Richard Carapaz should appear in Ineos. As this year, the four-time Tour de France winner Christopher Froome should represent the Israel Start-Up Nation.
Peter Sagan will make his new team debut in Argentina until the 2020 winner Evenepoel returns to the scene.
The world champion Filippo Ganna and his new co-driver Ineos Grenadies Viviani should also be part of the race, “said cyclingnews.com, referring to the media in Italy.
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The closely watched Vuelta and San Juan races will begin on January 30, 2022 in San Juan, and culminate on February 6 in the eighth stage at the same venue.
The sixth stage will have a mountaineering profile and after 176 km will culminate in a traditional climb to Alto Colorado.
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