Peter Sagan has said that it was lucky that he had the legs to go for the sprint after taking his second successive victory in the Tour De Suisse.
“The race was very hard.," Sagian said to the Tinkoff team press office. "I caught the escape on the descent, on the flat, and it was pretty hard to keep up.
When its raining it’s much easier to be alone out the front – to make the break stick – and the decisions I made were based on me feeling good
On the front the guys did some work with me and it was ok in the lead up to the finish. It was a good sprint – at 300m out I stayed on his wheel and then passed him on the line.
The riders in the breakaway wanted to work with me today – it’s not always easy to get them to work with me but we all wanted the win. It was just lucky I still had the legs to go for the sprint in the last hundred metres.”
The Slovakian was not happy that the peloton did not want to work with his team and said: “It was tough when we were working so hard. Cycling has changed – it doesn’t respect the group as much. We were out on front, working with Lotto, but all the riders weren’t working. I was asking where the respect was. We were going to kill ourselves riding so hard with 50km to go. I thought it would be easier for everyone if we worked, but I’m angry that my team was working hard on the front, but no-one seemed to respect that.”