Nicholas Roche Within the last few hours he announced his retirement from the professional circuit. He himself gave the news and chose to communicate with cycling news microphones. Roche, who competed for the DSM team this past season, is still showing one Good physical condition.

Retirement idea in mind after Giro di Italia

The former athlete began by acknowledging that his decision to retire was “the most difficult and at the same time the easiest.” In fact, Roche “The The best cyclists To the world, past and present. ”

The Irishman continued his message, stating that he always thought he would run “as long as possible”. However, the decision to retire was inevitable, coming between the end of August and the beginning of last September. Apparently, as he mentioned Roche, The retirement choice did not come “overnight”, he admitted that the end of the last Giro de Italia was already in his mind. The realization that led to Roche’s retirement was, “The team is getting younger and the world is growing.” Cycling That is changing. “

Roche’s proud career was marked by his presence in four editions of the Olympic Games

Roche ended his message by admitting that he had “a good level” last season as well.

Despite this, the former rider wanted to end his career “in the best way” without finishing last in the group: “I realized there was something else in life besides cycling”.

A career, that is Roche, Long and proud. His debut was in 2005 when he made his professional debut for the cyclist Cofidis team.

During his 17 years of operation, Ryder has participated in 22 great tours, including five editions of the Giro and ten of the Tour de France. In 2015/2016 Roche got great satisfaction, he won a stage of the Vulta de Spagna with the team sky jersey and then won two rounds of the Irish National Championship (both in road test and time trial).

His participation is a testament to the importance of Roche’s career The Olympics, Four of them. In fact, in the Irish jersey, the former cyclist competed in Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, where he finished 75th in the road race and 28th in the stopwatch.

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