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Peter Sagan recces Rio Olympic road race course (Tinkoff facebook video still).JPGVideo: Peter Sagan rides Rio Olympic road race course
World champion Peter Sagan broke his journey back from last week's Tour de San Luis in Argentina to preview the course of August's Olympic road race in Rio, with his Tinkoff team posting footage of his ride to Facebook.
First impressions of the Olympic race course in Rio as Peter Sagan, Rafał Majka, Maciej Bodnar and Paweł Poljański rode...
Posted by Tinkoff on Thursday, 28 January 2016
Sagan was joined by three of his Tinkoff team mates, the Polish riders Rafał Majka, Maciej Bodnar and Paweł Poljański, as well as guests from Specialized Bicycles in Brazil.
With temperatures in the 30s, it was a sweltering day in the saddle - it should be slightly cooler come August - but with none of the strong winds that buffeted Sagan and fellow riders on a climb on the Tour de San Luis at the weekend.
> Video: Sagan's helping hand as riders grind to halt
Last year, the proposed start and finish locations of the Olympic road races were changed to the Brazilian city's world famous Copacabana beach
> Copacabana start and finish for Olympic road races
.@Olympics recon in Rio! @maciejbodnar @pawelpoljanski @majkaformal @petosagan @PatxiVila @iamspecialized pic.twitter.com/KSlWZl3WKX
— Tinkoff (@tinkoff_team) January 26, 2016
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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