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Ex-world champion Tony Martin (36) stops cycling | Cycling

sport">The 36-year-old Martin will take action in Belgium on Sunday in the time trial and will ride his last kilometers as a professional in the mixed team time trial on Wednesday.

sport">“The heavy falls this year also forced me to ask myself if I was ready to re-expose myself to the dangers of our sport,” says Martin. “I’ve decided that I don’t want to do that anymore, especially because security has not improved despite all the discussions. Hopefully the cycling world will listen to the plans as proposed by my team and other teams.”

sport">Martin has been driving for Jumbo-Visma since 2019. In addition to four world time trial titles (2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016), he also won five stages in the Tour de France, two in the Vuelta and the final classification of Paris-Nice in 2011. The German became national for the tenth time this year. time trial champion.

sport">Martin informed the Jumbo-Visma team management after the Tour de France that he does not want to serve out his ongoing contract. The German had fallen in the first stage of the Tour because a spectator with a large sign in her hands was partially on the road. Martin couldn’t avoid her and went down. It led to a massive crash in the peloton. The organization of the Tour de France also received a lot of criticism from the teams on the dangerous course in the first days. Martin crashed again in the eleventh stage and then decided to give up. He made his comeback in the Tour of Britain at the beginning of this month.

sport">“I want to say goodbye in an appropriate way, during the World Time Trial World Championship that I won four times and for which I trained hard,” said Martin.

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