{"id":141289,"date":"2016-06-08T12:43:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=141289"},"modified":"2016-06-14T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T11:58:16","slug":"peter-sagan-surprises-hes-not-going-start-olympic-road-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2016\/06\/08\/peter-sagan-surprises-hes-not-going-start-olympic-road-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Sagan Surprises Again! He\u2019s Not Going to Start in the Olympic Road Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s official! The champ has decided to switch disciplines in Rio and will compete for a medal on a MTB instead of a road bike.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEveryone counted on the fact that Peter Sagan, as world champion, will start on the road. Peter, however, offered a seat to road cycling in exchange for a start in the MTB cross country. As we know, he will not only want to attend the Olympics, but to fight for the top positions,\u201d said Peter Privara, president of the Slovak Cycling Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sagan decided he didn\u2019t like the Rio road race course already in January, but would <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">have <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">probably entered it anyway if it wasn\u2019t for this surprising turn of events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In May the S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lovak<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> federation <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">had <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">asked for a wildcard place to be given to Peto in case some countries wouldn\u2019t fill their allocations of places<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in the end<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the situation was resolved differently. Sagan will switch places with MTB pro Martin Haring<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who will give the mountainous road race a go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-141293\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/06\/profimedia-0286420628.jpg\" alt=\"In May the Slovak federation had asked for a wildcard place to be given to Peto in case some countries wouldn\u2019t fill their allocations of places, but in the end the situation was resolved differently. Sagan will switch places with MTB pro Martin Haring, who will give the mountainous road race a go.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His road racing record isn\u2019t very rich<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with his most prestigious title being the King of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">M<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ountains at the 2015 Tour of Cameroon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sagan<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the other hand<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is obviously <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> very experienced MTB rider. The junior MTB world champion will resume a special training after the Tour de France. The 4-week<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">long session should prepare him for Rio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do you think Peter could win gold in the MTB race? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official! The champ has decided to switch disciplines in Rio and will compete for a medal on a MTB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":141379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[441,381,440],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-141289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-olympic-games","tag-peter-sagan","tag-rio-2016"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peter Sagan Surprises Again! He\u2019s Not Going to Start in the Olympic Road Race - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s official! 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