Cyclist champion Peter Sagan, who is aiming to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics in mountain biking after retiring from road racing, underwent heart surgery on Friday February 23 to treat an arrhythmia, said one of his representatives. “ Peter is fine. He will be back on the bike in more or less a week with the same program as initially planned. Everything is under control », Said this spokesperson. The 34-year-old Slovak, a former three-time road world champion and seven-time winner of the green jersey at the Tour de France, was treated at a hospital in Ancona, Italy. Mentioned for a moment, a cardiac ablation was ultimately not necessary to correct the arrhythmia of Sagan who had experienced an abnormal episode of tachycardia during a mountain bike race last Sunday with a pulse exceeding 200 beats per minute. A superstar of the past decade, Sagan hung up his road bike last fall after 121 career victories and now aims to defend his country’s colors at the 2024 Paris Olympics in mountain biking, his original sport.
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