Tour de Suisse: Three Out of Four Ain't Bad...

Yes, for the third time in four days Peter Sagan has beaten the field to the line at the Tour de Suisse. Add to these his five stages at the Tour of California, one each at the Tour of Oman, Tirreno-Adriatico, and Three Days of de Panne, a 5th place finish at the Tour of Flanders, 4th at Milan-San Remo, third at Amstel Gold, and second at Ghent-Wevelgem, and you have a quite successful first half of the year. These are results we would expect to see for a cagey veteran of the peloton, but Sagan is only 22 and has only been racing at the professional level since 2010. Promising results, enough for one to believe that the best is still to come.

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