Peter Sagan has not taken the beginning of stage 3 at Tirreno-Adriatico after falling in poor health on Wednesday morning.
The Slovakian was reported to have felt in poor health after Tuesday’s second stage, the place he completed fourth within the dash after 219 kilometres of racing. Wednesday morning introduced a bout of vomiting for the previous world champion.
Cyclingnews’ reporter on the bottom in Italy Stephen Farrand confirmed that Sagan is out of the race affected by a fever along with his abdomen issues.
The sickness is the newest setback for Sagan after an unfortunate begin to his TotalEnergies tenure. His early season coaching was compromised after he caught COVID-19 for a second time in early January, whereas he seemed off the tempo at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne final month.
Sagan was affected by a sore throat and a fever final week, although he examined unfavourable for COVID-19. It is unknown whether or not his present sickness is a continuation of that or a brand new an infection.
The 32 -year-old appeared to bounce again together with his fourth place end on Tuesday, and he’ll now flip his consideration to his first main purpose of the season at Milan-San Remo in 10 days’ time, with Milano-Torino (March 16) additionally on his calendar.
Nonetheless, his absence from the rest of Tirreno-Adriatico will imply that he is set to overlook out on precious racing preparation days for La Classicissima.
Sagan was in competitors for the in Sovicille on Tuesday after his TotalEnergies lead out hit the entrance within the last kilometres of the stage.
He hit the entrance after launching his dash, however pale through the sprint to the road, and was handed by eventual winner Tim Merlier (Alpecin-Fenix) within the closing metres. Younger sprinters Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma) and Kaden Groves (BikeExchange-Jayco) additionally went previous to take second and third.
“What can I say? It might have gone higher however it might have gone worse,” Sagan mentioned, after the end.
“They got here up and over me from behind actually strongly and with velocity, and that made the distinction.”
Daniel Ostanek is manufacturing editor at Cyclingnews, having joined in 2017 as a contract contributor and later being employed as workers author. Earlier than Cyclingnews, he was printed in quite a few publications across the biking world, together with Procycling, CyclingWeekly, CyclingTips, Bicycle owner, and Rouleur, amongst others. In addition to reporting and writing information and options, Daniel runs the ‘Methods to watch’ content material all through the season.
Daniel has reported from the world’s high races, together with the Tour de France, and has interviewed quite a lot of the game’s largest stars, together with Egan Bernal, Wout van Aert, Remco Evenepoel, Mark Cavendish, and Anna van der Breggen. Daniel rides a 2002 Landbouwkrediet Colnago C40 and his favorite races are Strade Bianche and the Vuelta a España.
