Peter Sagan joined his new Total Energies teammates for the first time this year, participating in a six-hour ride at the team's training camp in Calpe, Spain, on Monday.After testing positive for the COVID-19 test two weeks ago, the team will be in France on January 10. He was scheduled to show off his team kit at the service course.

It was the second time in 11 months that Sagan had tested positive for coronavirus, along with his brother Yulai Sagan, who had moved from Bora Hansgrohe to Team Total Energies. Instead of a 10-day quarantine after the first positive test, as was the case in Spain last spring, this time the new French health regulations required that he be quarantined at his home in Monte Carlo for five days and then return a negative test.

Before the positive test, Sagan participated in a photo shoot with several other riders to present his new 2022 kit, with blue and red bands as Slovak national road champion and rainbow stripes on his collar as former world champion. At the time, the team posted Sagan's new look on social media.

"Went out for my first bike ride of the year with friends old and new," Sagan posted on his Twitter page. He and Julai took part in a training ride along Spain's scenic central east coast.

This was the team's second training camp in Calpe, where they spent 10 days in mid-December. Sagan was scheduled to make his debut with the French pro team at the Vuelta a San Juan in Argentina from January 30 to February 5, but the stage race in this pro series was canceled for the second year in a row due to a resurgence of the coronavirus.

According to VeloNews, Sagan was also forced to cancel plans for high-altitude training in South America because there were no races to take him there. Sagan now plans to do additional training in the Canary Islands before the three-day Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var in February.

Sagan, who turns 32 on January 26, has his sights set on spring classics this season like Milan-San Remo, where he finished fourth last year. In his first race of his two years with Total Energy, Sagan said he hopes to help the French professional team grow and win bigger races. Last year he took a stage win and the points jersey at the Giro d'Italia, but he is not sure yet whether he will target the Giro, as his French pro team still needs an invitation.