Peter Sagan's name has been added to the list of all-stars competing in the Vuelta a San Juan in Argentina, and organizers of the UCI Pro Series race announced Sunday that Total Energies will join Ineos Grenadiers in the eight-day stage race, where three-time world champion Peter Sagan will make his 2023 season debut.

The Vuelta a San Juan will return to the international calendar on January 22-29, 2023, after being cancelled for the past two years due to the COVID-19 coronavirus.

"I am already preparing for the 2023 season, which will start at the Vuelta a San Juan, a race I love and a place I consider my home," Sagan said in Spanish on his Instagram.

Ineos headliners Egan Bernal and Filippo Ganna are expected to start the season in South America, where Ganna finished second overall in 2019 as part of the Italian national team.

Peter Sagan competed in the Vuelta a San Juan in 2020 and 2019, accumulating three podiums out of 10 top-10 finishes. The Slovak national road champion has competed in the Tour de San Luis three times and is looking for an evasive stage win in Argentina.

Sagan had a disappointing start to his Total Energies campaign after moving from Bora-Hansgrohe in the winter. He suffered his second and third seizures on COVID-19 that season, the last on the final day of the Tour de Suisse in preparation for the Tour de France. He completed 21 days of the Grand Tour for Total Energies, but was not in the middle of the sprinting vortex. In 48 days of racing with the new kit, Sagan was only able to contribute to one victory, the Tour de Suisse.

He represented Slovakia in the national road race title and finished seventh at the world championships in Australia. Always looking for adventure on two wheels, Sagan also competed in the e-MTB World Championships and the Gravel World Championships, finishing in the top 20 in both.

Now 32, Sagan is under contract with TotalEnergies through 2023.

"It's certainly not my best season, but it's not my worst either. That's not the way I look at my season or my career," Sagan told Cycling News this fall,