Sound names confirmed! Sagan and Froome will come to Around Slovakia – PRAVDA.sk

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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18.08.2021 11:51, updated: 12:15

Chris Froome (in yellow jersey) and Peter Sagan (in green) at the Tour de France 2016.

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.

Seven teams of the highest category of the World Tour and six procontinental teams promised to participate.

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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.

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 definitely 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.

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 in Around Slovakia.

International races Around Slovakia will be broadcast live on Eurosport. In addition, the event will be broadcast by RTVS on Dvojka.

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Peter Sagan, season

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