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Retirements 2024
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| SotD |
Posted on 27-07-2025 15:21
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Indeed a list of very interesting riders!
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 27-07-2025 15:49
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Good riddance Alex Dowsett!
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 27-07-2025 15:50
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До свидания to the Russian Rocket  Roman Maksimov. The hilly-hating, acceleration merchant who always found a way to lose sprints, but always made it an exciting bunch sprint. Enjoy your retirement and stay out of trouble.
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 27-07-2025 16:06
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Happy retirement Jonny Bellis the original hilly sprinter that opened the floodgates for SN and Jaguar-Eritel many many years ago now , he also became a real favourite for RBC dragging us out of the PCT and had one stage race in Beijing that year were he was dominant a true game shaping rider |
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 27-07-2025 20:18
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Two Minions legends retiring in Uran and Haga, as well as the entire top 4 of the legendary 2018 World Championship. What a class of riders parting the world cycling
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 27-07-2025 20:26
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Lots of great riders retiring! Besides the 8 that were already mentioned, Ulissi (MSR in 2012), Baugnies (winning quite some cobbled races in PCT), Uran (2 wins in PT/PTHC, several wins in PCT races) stand out - and of course, José Alarcon! He won the Vuelta in 2014 and the Giro in 2017, and plenty of races in PCT - for me, definitely the bigger name than Sicard!
The only rider on that list who ever rode for me is Saggiorato, my first stage racer - great memories of these days, and happy retirement to you!
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| Heine |
Posted on 27-07-2025 20:34
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Many great riders retiring. Ratiy was my first big purchase. I paid 1.1 mill for him iirc
Niki Østergaard I had on two ocassions, Brenes and Anacona I signed as talents once upon a time.
Nostalgic list!
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Posted on 05-12-2025 13:55
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| knockout |
Posted on 27-07-2025 21:15
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A whole thread discussing retirement of important riders and nobody has mentioned Yannick Stoltz. What a legend!
A Big Thank You To All MG Reporters! |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 02-08-2025 17:34
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Sam Bewley was clearly the king of the retirees for me as a cobbles focused team. Best to ever do it. Reporting a portion of his string of dominance at Roubaix is one of my favorite MG memories.
Ostergaard obviously my personal favorite here, though i consider some of those guys effectively retired for several years now. Him coming back to win GP Herning solo after I had already promoted and made him a domestique is probably his legacy.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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