Tag: Peter Sagan

  • Why Peter Sagan is favourite for Milan-San Remo

    The first big race of the year, Milan-San Remo, is coming up on Sunday. Peter Sagan is the favourite and it’s a good time to look at why he is such a special cyclist as the nature of this race helps explain why that’s the case. Sagan’s niche Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France…

  • Peter Sagan, Oman, oh man

    A new year, but little has changed. Peter Sagan is still mincing professional cyclists as if they were horsemeat at a Findus beef lasagne factory. He’s won two stages in a row at the Tour of Oman and has looked ludicrously powerful. What odds on a win in one (or several) of the Spring Classics?…

  • Rest day round-up – where everything stands in the Tour de France

    A rest day today. Nowt going on. The riders will be cyling non-competitively for mere tens of kilometres, the lazy sods, so we’ll have to make do with taking stock of where we’re up to. Overall/yellow jersey Bradley Wiggins has a 2m 5s lead over his team mate, Chris “Froomedog” Froome. He has 2m 23s…

  • Peter Sagan and his victory celebrations

    Peter Sagan once won the Slovak Cup on his sister’s bike after selling his own and then finding that the replacement from his sponsor had been delayed. If anyone tells me it wasn’t a ‘sit up and beg’ bike with a basket on the front, I will not listen. Some stories are better if you…