{"id":189792,"date":"2022-06-15T12:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T12:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=189792"},"modified":"2022-06-15T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:00:30","slug":"peter-sagan-wins-stage-3-at-tour-de-suisse-its-nice-to-be-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2022\/06\/15\/peter-sagan-wins-stage-3-at-tour-de-suisse-its-nice-to-be-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Sagan Wins Stage 3 at Tour de Suisse: &#8216;It&#8217;s Nice to Be Back&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The legend is celebrating the first win in nine months and the 18th Tour de Suisse triumph overall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Peter Sagan managed to work himself into a great position in the final kilometre and launched an early sprint. He faced tough opposition but proved to be the strongest. Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) finished second and Alexander Kristoff (Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty-Gobert Mat\u00e9riaux) third. Kristoff immediately congratulated Sagan on the victory, the Slovak\u2019s first for his new team TotalEnergies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Strong teamwork on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tds<\/a> stage 3 and first victory in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamTotalEnrg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TeamTotalEnrg<\/a> colors! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllezTotalEnergies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AllezTotalEnergies<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Bel effort d&#39;\u00e9quipe \u00e0 la trosi\u00e8me \u00e9tape du <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tds<\/a> et premi\u00e8re victoire sous les couleurs de <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamTotalEnrg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TeamTotalEnrg<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllezTotalEnergies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AllezTotalEnergies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rADV0kmPLA\">pic.twitter.com\/rADV0kmPLA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter Sagan (@petosagan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petosagan\/status\/1536797568000196610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to get back in a racing mood after my sickness and three months without racing, I just needed some time. It\u2019s just a stage win. I\u2019m happy for that and happy for the team. They all did a great job pulling with another team all day. In the end, I just made it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It might be \u201cjust a stage win\u201d in the overall look at Sagan\u2019s career. However, it\u2019s been quite some time since he was at his best. He tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this year and missed a bunch of races. Is this a sign of him truly coming back?<\/p>\n<p>Asked if it was nice to return to winning, Sagan seemed to agree: &#8220;Well, it\u2019s nice to be back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Williams (Bahrain-Victorious) still remains in the overall lead of the Tour de Suisse with six seconds on Andreas Kron (Lotto Soudal).<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Tour de Suisse \u2013 stage three results<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies) \u2013 4:28:38<\/li>\n<li>Bryan Coquard (Cofidis)<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Kristoff (Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty-Gobert Mat\u00e9riaux)<\/li>\n<li>Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers)<\/li>\n<li>Alex Aranburu (Movistar)<\/li>\n<li>Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates)<\/li>\n<li>Cees Bol (Team DSM)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Matthews (BikeExchange-Jayco)<\/li>\n<li>Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma)<\/li>\n<li>Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4><strong>Tour de Suisse \u2013 general classification<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Stephen Williams (Bahrain Victorious) \u2013 13:32:19<\/li>\n<li>Andreas Kron (Lotto Soudal) + 6 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Andreas Leknessund (Team DSM) + 7 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers)<\/li>\n<li>Stefan K\u00fcng (Groupama FDJ) + 10 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Sepp Kuss (Jumbo Visma) + 10 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Marc Hirschi (UAE Team Emirates) + 10 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe) + 10 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Jakob Fuglsang (Israel-Premier Tech) + 10 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers) + 10 seconds<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legend is celebrating the first win in nine months and the 18th Tour de Suisse triumph overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":189796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[6457,1335,6459,381,583,6458,3250],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-189792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-2022-tour-de-suisse","tag-alexander-kristoff","tag-bryan-coquard","tag-peter-sagan","tag-road-cycling","tag-stephen-williams","tag-tour-de-suisse","global-categories-cycling"],"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 Wins Stage 3 at Tour de Suisse: &#039;It&#039;s Nice to Be Back&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The legend is celebrating the first win in nine months and the 18th Tour de Suisse triumph overall. 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