As Alberto Contador bids adios, Felix Lowe ponders the retirement options for the sport’s big names
Days of fruitless attacks were capped by Contador going bananas on the Alto de l’Angliru to win the Vuelta’s queen stage and rise into the top five on GC. He plainly didn’t give a fig about finishing fourth, and instead milked the Madrid crowd on his final appearance as a pro.
Many people will say he should have retired earlier, at the peak of his powers, but who among us could really have turned down that $2m-per-year Trek contract and the chance, however slim, to wear a pink/yellow/ red jersey just one more time. His heroics on the Angliru were at least a fitting finale. And in terms of bowing out on a high, even the great Eddy Merckx failed to win a Grand Tour in his final three years before retiring at the age of 32 after a humdrum 1977 season.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November 2017 من Cyclist Middle East.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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