Video: Peter Sagan inspires young rider in Telekom Slovakia spot

World champion Peter Sagan is featured in a new spot for one of his personal sponsors, Telekom Slovakia, coming to the help of a young woman who is struggling to get up a hill on her bike.

If the plot of a champion cyclist helping inspire a young woman to ride up an ascent is a familiar one, that's because it's been used before; the 2014 Japanese anime short Hill Climb Girl saw Sir Bradley Wiggins  - well, an animated version of him - come to the help of the title character as she tried to beat fellow students racing their bikes to school.

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Back in the real world, we reported earlier this year how Sagan had inspired a young female cyclist from the UK, eight-year-old Ruby Isaac from Northamptonshire.

> Peter Sagan tells British girl, 8, who filmed Haribo tribute video that she could "become world champion in a few years"

After she posted a video herself scoffing Haribo after a bike ride in homage to similar footage of Sagan hoovering up the gummy sweets following his victory at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne in February, he tweeted her to say: "One day you could even become world  champion in a few years."