Speaking at Tinkoff-Saxo’s first team meeting with their 2016 squad, Peter Sagan has told Cyclingnews that he plans on racing with the same attitude he had in Richmond when he became the World Champion.
"Maybe it can be more pressure with the jersey next season, maybe not. Winning the Worlds was a great feeling and I'm very happy with the fact that I'm the World champion. It's the best result I could I have hoped for but I'll continue to race with passion," he told Cyclingnews.
"That [racing mentality] will not change. The only change is that I'll be doing it in one of the more beautiful jerseys in cycling."
Sagan was given a heroes welcome when he went home to Slovakia after taking the Worlds. He says he hasn’t had much time to relax, and will only have three weeks off the bike. He says his experience in Slovakia was great, but he doesn’t feel like the superstar his fans see him as.
"I'm no superstar," he says. "A superstar is an actor or a singer. It's something so different to me. [Lance] Armstrong was a superstar and the people knew him, in and out of cycling. I could be a superstar in cycling maybe but not outside of cycling. You have to keep your feet on the ground. No one can fly."
Sagan says that 2015, despite not being a season where he won a Classic or Tour stage, was still a winning formula calendar wise and he wont make too many changes to his schedule for 2016.
"More or less, my racing programme will be the same as this year. I'll start in Argentina with San Luis. I've done that race twice and from there the important races will be Milan San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris Roubaix and then the Tour de France. That's roughly the same schedule as last year.”
"Roubaix remains a target but from San Remo until Roubaix I'm targeting all the major races. This season I wasn't too happy with my Spring campaign but what I gained was more experience."
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