Peter Sagan

LEON, Spain (VN) — Defending champion Vincenzo Nibali and grand tour rookie Peter Sagan headline a deep Liquigas-Cannondale team for the Vuelta a España.

Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) won the 68th Tour of Poland on Saturday after finishing second on the final stage.

Liquigas-Cannondale's Slovak phenom, Peter Sagan, won Wednesday's stage 4 of the 2011 Tour of Poland, taking over the race lead from Skil-Shimano's Marcel Kittel, who won the race's first three stages.

GRINDELWALD, Switzerland (AFP) - Slovakia's Peter Sagan of the Liquigas team won the third stage of the Tour of Switzerland on Monday, a 105km ride from Brig-Glis to Grindelwald that included a category 1 and unclassified climb.

Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) won stage five of the Amgen Tour of California on Thursday, extending his lead in the sprint classification in the process.

Tony Martin and Peter Sagan will be among the in-form riders looking to capitalize on the relative lack of Spanish talent when Paris-Nice kicks off on Sunday.

The manner in which Slovak-sensation Peter Sagan scored four victories in Sardinia this past week points to a career that’s headed to the sport’s very highest levels. Maybe he’ll even go as far as the sport’s biggest ever winner, Eddy Merckx.

Peter Sagan fends off some fierce attacks in the finale to secure the overall victory at the Giro di Sardegna.

Peter Sagan knows no rival – at least at the ongoing Giro di Sardegna.

Stage 3:

• 1. Peter SAGAN, (SVK) Liquigas-Doimo, in 4:20:03
• 2. Jose Rodolfo SERPA PEREZ, (COL) Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni, at s.t.
• 3. Damiano CUNEGO, (ITA) Lampre-Farnese Vini, at s.t.
• 4. Emanuele SELLA, (ITA) Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni, at 2
• 5. Ben HERMANS, (BEL) Team RadioShack, at 2

• 1. Peter SAGAN, (SVK) Liquigas-Doimo, in 13:16:36
• 2. Damiano CUNEGO, (ITA) Lampre-Farnese Vini, at 4
• 3. Jose Rodolfo SERPA PEREZ, (COL) Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni, at 6
• 4. Emanuele SELLA, (ITA) Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni, at 18
• 5. Ben HERMANS, (BEL) Team RadioShack, at 22

• 1. Peter SAGAN, (SVK) Liquigas-Doimo, in 3:35:25
• 2. Alessandro BALLAN, (ITA) BMC Racing Team, at s.t.
• 3. Daniel OSS, (ITA) Liquigas-Doimo, at s.t.
• 4. Oscar GATTO, (ITA), at s.t.
• 5. Daniele PIETROPOLLI, (ITA) Lampre-Farnese Vini, at s.t.

Comments from an alleged Peter Sagan “Twitter” account complaining of nagging stomach ailments and problems with Liquigas team doctors went viral this weekend across the Web, but the Slovak phenomenon says the words are not his.

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• 1. Robert GESINK, (NED) Rabobank Cycling Team, in 4:58:22
• 2. Peter SAGAN, (SVK) Liquigas-Doimo, at 8
• 3. Ryder HESJEDAL, (CAN) Garmin-Transitions, at 8
• 4. Haimar ZUBELDIA AGIRRE, (ESP) Team RadioShack, at 8
• 5. Maxime MONFORT, (BEL) HTC-Columbia, at 8

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Peter Sagan (LIquigas) won Friday's Queen Stage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California, his second consecutive win, moving him past Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack) and into third overall, behind Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) and Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions).

Casey B. Gibson's photos from stage 5 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California.

Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) won stage 5 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California in a spectacular sprint among the GC hopefuls

Three weeks ago, Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) was at the Tour of Romandie, building for a projected start at the Giro d’Italia. Tuesday he defended his lead in the best young rider competition at the Amgen Tour of California. Peter Stetina (Garmin-Transitions) is the riders closest to him in the white jersey competition.

Sagan takes over at Romandie

Liquigas's Peter Sagan scored a second stage victory in this year's Paris-Nice with a bold solo attack in the final two kilometers on Friday. Sagan, who also won stage 3, emerged from a group of about 40 survivors on what turned out to be a tougher-than-expected stage 5, a relatively short 157-km run from Pernes-les-Fontaines to Aix-en-Provence.