Bicycling Australia

Pro cycling at a crossroads

WHEN A THREE-TIME WORLD road champion and the current most recognisable figure in the sport tells you cycling is boring to watch, we need to sit up and listen.

“If you look only at the last 10 kilometres, (or last) five or one, everything happens at full speed... But if you turn (the television) on at 100 kilometres (remaining), you fall asleep, right?

“Then you wake up at 10 kilometres from the end and you’re curious to see how it ends,” Peter Sagan told Spanish outlet at the conclusion of last year’s Vuelta a España, which he used to prepare for the world championships in Innsbruck,

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