Taunts at the champion. Sagan won the sprint – to the latrine – PRAVDA.sk

Tanned, rested and obviously fit. That’s the impression Peter Sagan left on journalists at the press conference before the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec event. Photo: Lairys Laurent/ABACA / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia Peter Sagan in the jersey of the TotalEnergies team. “It’s a circuit race, and it will be the same at the World Championships in Australia. The profile is also similar. I take it as an ideal preparation before the world championship,” said the 32-year-old Slovak superstar the day before the start. But everything was different on the track. Sagan was riding well, staying in the main group of favorites, but then came the problems. About 40 km before the finish, he slowed down so that he reached the very end of the main pack. Then he got off the road and headed straight for the mobile toilet. “Sagan won the sprint – to the latrine,” wrote the satirical BOTA-hansglohe Twitter profile (a reference to Sagan’s former team BORA-hansgrohe). Peter Sagan wins the Sprint to the portaloo pic.twitter.com/ncvG39ovqR — BOTA-hansglohe (@BOTAhansglohe) September 9, 2022 Sagan did not speak to the press after the race, which he won after a great attack at the end by the Frenchman Benoit Cosnefroy of the AG2R Citroën team . He has not yet commented on social networks, where he usually gives a short assessment after his performance. “It was probably stomach problems in his case,” CyclingUpToDate reported. Sagan does not have much time for regeneration, the second Canadian race – the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal – awaits him on Sunday. He has fond memories of the event in Montreal, having won it in 2013. However, after yesterday’s unexpected withdrawal, his Sunday start is now questionable.