His dramatic victory in the Paris-Roubaix has elevated the Slovakian to the pinnacle of his sport but his humble roots and carefree attitude seem certain to preserve cycling’s new hero grounded“I was thoroughly fucked but I tried to devour it afterwards,” Peter Sagan says with a grin as he explains how he felt after winning the Paris-Roubaix classic this month. “When I was younger, it was always my dream to win Paris-Roubaix. I didn’t contemplate about the World Championships and [the Tour of] Flanders.”Sagan is the most popular rider in cycling nowadays and, or with the murky uncertainty surrounding Chris Froome and Team Sky,his victory felt like a shaft of light which revealed panache and grit. They call Paris-Roubaix the Hell of the North’, because its 29 cobbled sections have a bone-juddering impact on even the toughest and most brilliant riders. It is also the glittering peak among the five monuments which are cycling’s oldest and most prestigious one-day races.
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Source: guardian.co.uk