Rui Costa, the only Portuguese long-distance world champion cyclist, announced this Friday, October 31, the end of his career at the age of 39, declaring himself “blessed” for having lived a dream that led him to win three stages in the Tour de France.
“The time has come to retire. To enjoy the company of my loved ones, to be present in the small, big moments and to calmly live what was so often postponed. I was blessed to live my dream, to win, to fall and get up, and to always have my little guardian angel with me at every bend in the road”wrote the EF Education-EasyPost cyclist in a post on the social network Instagram.
World elite long-distance champion in 2013, the 39-year-old Poveiro is one of the best Portuguese cyclists of all time, with 33 triumphs on his CV, three of which were in Tour stages. Winner of a stage in the Vuelta2023, he also won three editions of the Tour of Switzerland and several national road champion titles.
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