Gerent Thomas announced that it will retire from cycling at the end of the season.
The 38 -year -old Olympic Gold Medal, who won a tour of France in 2018, will lead to the fall of his career after 19 years as a professional.
“This year will be the last year in my bike race,” Thomas told the Bodcast newspaper. Girl Thomas Cycling Club. “It is strange, it has always been at the back of my mind, during the past four years I thought it would be the last, but it will be this last year.
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“When you say that loudly, it looks like this,” Blimey, within seven to eight months, will be done. “You can’t do it forever; get some gray hair. I don’t want it to do a lot.
“I am still really enjoying the riding of my bike, race, training and getting equipped, this is what I loved since I was twelve years old. But I do not want to reach the theater that I love,” I should have stopped last year, I don’t want to be here yet now.
“The main thing is the family, Mac (his son) will be on the sixth of this year, and he is Bonker. I’m happy because I continued at the time when I enjoyed the coming of races and will remember them. When I won the tour, Macs was born after a year, I thought it would be from Wonderful to be at that time.
“This is my nineteenth season, and it is a long time, I mixed it and kept it varied, which helps, ride the path to start. Can you do an additional year? Commonwealth games next year? Nevertheless, there is no way.
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