The future is not written. Peter Sagan should have been ready for the start of the season at the Vuelta a San Juan in Argentina later this month, but instead, he will be in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuhne Brussel Kuhne the last week of February before making his 2021 debut at the The team is going through a series of training camps.

On Saturday, Bora-Hansgrohe sport director Jan Valach suggested that the Slovakian rider would ride the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Tokyo Olympics, and World Championships in the 2021 program.

"We'll have to see what the schedule will be," Sagan said via videoconference from the Bora-Hansgrohe training camp on Lake Garda.

"Right now, we have a set schedule until the Classic. After that we have to think about what to do. It's an important year with the Olympics and the World Championships (in Flanders), so we have to decide."

Sagan missed the cobbled classics scheduled for last fall, choosing instead to combine his Giro debut with the Tour, which had been planned long before the Coronavirus pandemic disrupted the calendar. He plans to return to the cobbles in March and April, but insisted that the pandemic had already forced him to modify his 2021 calendar and that it was premature to outline a summer race program.

"We don't know yet. Like I said earlier, we'll know what happens after the Classic. A lot of races are being cancelled right now. What will happen this year? I think we still need more time to plan everything," Sagan said, but suggested that if he had to choose between the two races due to quarantine, he would choose the Tour de France over the Tokyo Olympics.

"If I have to decide now, I will definitely go for the green jersey again. But who knows what will happen, I might have to be in Japan two weeks before, or the rules might change with the vaccinations. We'll see what happens over the next five months."

Prior to Sunday, Sagan's teammate Emmanuel Buchmann confirmed that he will target the 2021 Giro d'Italia, while Beulah Hansgrohe will give sprinter Pascal Ackermann his Tour debut this season It has been said that Ackermann will make his debut in the Tour this season. Sagan successfully dodged a question in July as to whether his and Ackermann's ambitions could co-exist.

"The Tour is still a long way off, and after that the schedule will be worked out.

"I think we will see what his schedule will be for Pascal as well. We'll know later. At the moment he is ready to race, but there are a couple of races that have been cancelled. Let's see what happens next month."

But if the Tour goes ahead as planned, .......

"I'm not going to answer this question and you know why," Sagan grinned." Because "if" doesn't exist."

Sagan is currently in Peschiera del Garda for the Bora Hansgrohe training camp until January 17, and will have another camp in Gran Canaria before moving to the highlands of the Sierra Nevada in February.

"After this it should be Niusbrod and Coule," Sagan said. 'Who knows if that will happen. But that's the schedule.

By the time Sagan finalizes the rest of his race program in April, his future beyond 2021 may also be set. He is in the final year of his contract with Bora-Hansgrohe, and it remains to be seen whether he will stay with the German team or move to another.

"I think this question should be asked of Ralph Denk or his agent Giovanni Lombardi, not me," Sagan said. I'm very happy with this team. I'm going to stay another year and then we'll see what happens. "

Sagan's arrival in Beulah in 2017 guaranteed the team's entry into the World Tour, but Denk's team has since been a three-time World champions are less reliant on them.

"That's a good thing. The more strong players we have, the better the team will be," Sagan said. 'No, I'm still here.'