“Everything is under control”: Peter Sagan, who underwent heart surgery, hopes to resort very quickly

Peter Sagan vise à défendre les couleurs de son pays aux JO de Paris 2024. MAXPPP – Jean François Ottonello

Cyclist champion Peter Sagan, who is aiming to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics in mountain biking after retiring from road racing, underwent a heart procedure this Friday, February 24 to treat an arrhythmia, AFP learned from of one of its representatives.

The 34-year-old Slovakian, 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.

"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", this spokesperson told AFP.

The superstar aims for the next Olympics

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 race mountain biking on Sunday with a pulse exceeding 200 beats per minute.

Superstar of the last 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 on mountain bike , his original sport.