Peter Sagan, leader of Bora-Hansgrohe, will stick to the pre-COVID-19 race program of running both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France, due to the change in the calendar to have the Tour de France in September and the Giro d'Italia in October and potentially run 42 stages in just 58 days.

The UCI has decided to overlap many classics with the Giro d'Italia, so if Sagan competes in the Corsa Rosa, he will miss both the Tour de Flanders and Paris-Roubaix for the first time since 2013.

The 2020 Giro will be held October 3-25, with the Tour de Flanders and Paris-Roubaix moved to October 18 and October 25, respectively. Sagan won Paris-Roubaix in 2018 and the Tour de Flanders in 2016.

When the UCI announced the rescheduled calendar, it was widely expected that Sagan would ride the Tour de France for his eighth green points jersey and then the Classics. However, according to reports in the Slovak and Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, Sagan and his Bora-Hansgrohe team have opted to debut at the Giro d'Italia, as originally planned.

Since 2010, Sagan has taken on the now-defunct Tour of California in May, after the cobbled classics, before the Tour de France. This season, Sagan was scheduled to ride the spring classics, then the Giro, the Tour, and the similarly postponed Tokyo Olympics. [The Giro d'Italia will be Sagan's first participation in the race, and he will be aiming to win the Ciclamino points jersey in addition to the seven or eight points jerseys he won at the Tour de France.

Beulah Hansgrohe has yet to confirm Sagan's race program, but did not deny reports in Slovakia that he and the team's entire race program will be finalized at a training camp in Austria in June. [Ralph Scherzer told Het Nieuwsblad, "Traditionally, in mid-June the team will head to the Tyrol region, the mountainous part of Austria.